Title: Powers divine
First published: 2009
Description: "Tomeiko Ashford Carter offers insight into the true-to-life work of a black female preacher in nineteenth-century America and shows how she helped start a revolution of "spirit writing, ' a sanctuary where authors could create powerful leading heroines who live by their own brands of Christian theology. Carter also calls attention to subsequent black female writers whose fiction demonstrates the legacies of life and spirit-writing. She does not leave out black male writers whom she discovers have created their own versions of divine women since the nineteenth-century. Indeed, Power Divine provides unique insight into compelling "divine" characters."--Jacket.
Subjects: American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, American literature, women authors, Blacks, biography, Women, united states, biography, Spiritual biography, Autobiographies, Black authors, History and criticism, Women authors, Feminist fiction, American literature, African American authors
LC classification: PS153.N5 C37 2009