{"product_id":"spiritual-interrogations-9780691016474","title":"Spiritual Interrogations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. This book is an account of pre-Emancipation writings from the period of 1760 to 1863, in light of a developing African American religious culture and emerging free black communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Spiritual Interrogations marks a change in the very direction of the multiple academic disciplines that intersect at black (women's) studies.\"--Joycelyn Moody, Hamilton College, Signs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Ch. 1The Daughters' Arrival: Histories, Theories, Vernaculars10Ch. 2Diaspora Subjectivity and Transatlantic Crossings: Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Recovery28Ch. 3\"The Too Advent'rous Strain\": Slavery, Conversion, and Poetic Empowerment in Phillis Wheatley's Elegies58Ch. 4\"Social Piety\" in Ann Plato's Essays71Ch. 5\"I Took a Text\": Itinerancy, Community, and Intertextuality in Jarena Lee's Spiritual Narratives87Ch. 6Rituals of Desire: Spirit, Culture, and Sexuality in the Writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson108Ch. 7Performing Community: Culture, Community, and African American Subjectivity before Emancipation127Afterword: The Sacred Subject140Notes143Selected Bibliography165Index177","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403678327127,"sku":"9780691016474","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691016474.jpg?v=1730484230","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/spiritual-interrogations-9780691016474","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}