Transforming scriptures
Subtitle: African American women writers and the Bible
By: Katherine Clay Bassard.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820330907
Subjects: 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 literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Talking mules and troubled hermeneutics: Black women's biblical self-disclosures; title: Private interpretations: the Bible defense of slavery and nineteenth-century racial hermeneutics; title: Sampling the scriptures: Maria W. Stewart and the genre of prayer; title: Hannah's craft: biblical passing in The bondwoman's narrative; title: "Beyond mortal vision": identification and miscegenation in the Joseph cycle and Harriet E. Wilson's Our nig; title: And the greatest of these: eros, philos, and agape in two contemporary Black women's novels.