Katherine Clay Bassard

(Author)

Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's WritingPaperback, 7 February 1999

Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing
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Reading Age
Ages: 16
Grade Levels
11
Part of Series
Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
Part of Series
Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History (Paperback)
Print Length
192 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date Published
7 Feb 1999
ISBN-10
069101647X
ISBN-13
9780691016474

Description

The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women's voices. The significance of their writings would be profound for all African Americans' sense of their own identity as a people.

Katherine Clay Bassard's book is the first detailed account of pre-Emancipation writings from the period of 1760 to 1863, in light of a developing African American religious culture and emerging free black communities. Her study--which examines the relationship among race, culture, and community--focuses on four women: the poet Phillis Wheatley and poet and essayist Ann Plato, both Congregationalists; and the itinerant preacher Jarena Lee, and Shaker eldress Rebecca Cox Jackson, who, with Lee, had connections with African Methodism.

Together, these women drew on what Bassard calls a "spirituals matrix," which transformed existing literary genres to accommodate the spiritual music and sacred rituals tied to the African diaspora. Bassard's important illumination of these writers resurrects their path-breaking work. They were cocreators, with all black women who followed, of African American intellectual life.

Product Details

Audience:
Ages: 16
Author:
Katherine Clay Bassard
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
7 February 1999
Dimensions:
23.47 x 15.54 x 1.55 cm
Educational Level:
Grade Levels: 11
ISBN-10:
069101647X
ISBN-13:
9780691016474
Language:
English
Location:
Princeton
Pages:
192
Weight:
312.98 gm

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