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What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritual and travel narrative genres: Zilpha Elaw, Amanda Smith and Nancy Prince.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Unlikely Crossings
  • 1: "Where have you come from, and where are you going?": Spirituality and Mobility in Hagar's Narrative
  • 2: Visionary Movement in Zilpha Elaw's Memoirs
  • 3: Colonial and Missionary Crossings in Amanda Smith's An Autobiography
  • 4: Searching for Home in A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince
  • 5: Mapping Sacred Movement in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust
  • 6: Secular Journeys, Sacred Recovery: Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother
  • Coda
  • Bibliography

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      Publisher: MP-VIR Uni of Virginia
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/24/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813948928, 978-0813948928
      ISBN10: 0813948924
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      Literary studies: fiction Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritual and travel narrative genres: Zilpha Elaw, Amanda Smith and Nancy Prince.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgements
      • Introduction: Unlikely Crossings
      • 1: "Where have you come from, and where are you going?": Spirituality and Mobility in Hagar's Narrative
      • 2: Visionary Movement in Zilpha Elaw's Memoirs
      • 3: Colonial and Missionary Crossings in Amanda Smith's An Autobiography
      • 4: Searching for Home in A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince
      • 5: Mapping Sacred Movement in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust
      • 6: Secular Journeys, Sacred Recovery: Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother
      • Coda
      • Bibliography

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