Preacher Woman Sings the Blues: The Autobiographies of NineteenthCentury African American Evangelists (Volume 1),Used

Preacher Woman Sings the Blues: The Autobiographies of NineteenthCentury African American Evangelists (Volume 1),Used

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In this thorough and detailed study, Richard DouglassChin examines collectively for the first time the autobiographies of nineteenthcentury African American women evangelists, along with their eighteenthcentury forerunner "Belinda." By studying how black women evangelists employed dialogue created by socioeconomic conditions, the author shows how their writings form the groundwork for a contemporary womanist literature rooted in spirituality. Arguing that the writings have their own unique figurations and forms that develop and alter over time, DouglassChin claims that the changing black female spiritual narrative traces an important line in the ongoing traditions of black women's writing, a line that has only now begun to be reclaimed and validated. Through references to the writings of black male autobiographers Frederick Douglass, Richard Allen, Daniel Payne, and John Jea as well as the works of white female autobiographers Harriet Livermore and Phoebe Palmer, DouglassChin is able to make valuable comparisons.Preacher Woman Sings the Blues begins with the study of black evangelists Belinda, Jarena Lee, and Zilpha Elaw, continuing with Rebecca Cox Jackson, Sojourner Truth, Julia Foote, Amanda Smith, Elizabeth, and Virginia Broughton. The author's discussion of Zora Neale Hurston focuses on how Hurston operates as a connection between early black women evangelist writers and black women writing in America today. He ends with the works of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Toni Cade Bambara.By examining the early traditions prefiguring contemporary African American women's texts and the impact that race and gender have on them, DouglassChin shows how the nineteenthcentury black women's works are still of utmost importance to many African American women writers today. Preacher Woman Sings the Blues makes a valuable contribution to literary criticism and theoretical analysis and will be welcomed by scholars and students alike.

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