Transforming scriptures [electronic resource] : African American women writers and the Bible / Katherine Clay Bassard.
Material type: TextPublication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2010Description: viii, 166 pISBN: 9780820330907 (electronic bk.)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 LOC classification: PS153.N5 | B34 2010Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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