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Prophesying daughters : Black women preachers and the Word, 1823-1913
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Prophesying daughters : Black women preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 / Chanta M. Haywood.
ISBN
0826214673 (alk. paper)
Published
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-137) and index.
Contents
The prophesying daughters : biographical and historical background
The act of prophesying : nineteenth-century Black women preachers and Black literary history
Prophetic change : Jarena Lee's and Julia Foote's uses of conversion rhetoric in the context of reader distrust
Prophetic journeying : the trope of travel in Black women preachers' narratives
Prophetic reading : Black women preachers and biblical interpretation
Prophetic works : prophesying daughters and social activism
the case of Frances Joseph Gaudet
Can I get a witness? : the implications of prophesying for African American literary studies.
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