Transforming scriptures [electronic resource] : African American women writers and the Bible / Katherine Clay Bassard.
By: Bassard, Katherine Clay.
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BookPublisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2010Description: viii, 166 p.Subject(s): Bible -- In literature | American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism | American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism | African American women -- Religion | African American women in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/3822082 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references and index.
Talking mules and troubled hermeneutics: Black women's biblical self-disclosures -- Private interpretations: the Bible defense of slavery and nineteenth-century racial hermeneutics -- Sampling the scriptures: Maria W. Stewart and the genre of prayer -- Hannah's craft: biblical passing in The bondwoman's narrative -- "Beyond mortal vision": identification and miscegenation in the Joseph cycle and Harriet E. Wilson's Our nig -- And the greatest of these: eros, philos, and agape in two contemporary Black women's novels.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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