American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African American and Native American LiteraturesOxford University Press, 11/09/2003 - 272 páginas The 1780s and 1790s were a critical era for communities of color in the new United States of America. Even Thomas Jefferson observed that in the aftermath of the American Revolution, "the spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the dust." This book explores the means by which the very first Black and Indian authors rose up to transform their communities and the course of American literary history. It argues that the origins of modern African-American and American Indian literatures emerged at the revolutionary crossroads of religion and racial formation as early Black and Indian authors reinvented American evangelicalism and created new postslavery communities, new categories of racial identification, and new literary traditions. While shedding fresh light on the pioneering figures of African-American and Native American cultural history--including Samson Occom, Prince Hall, Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, and John Marrant--this work also explores a powerful set of little-known Black and Indian sermons, narratives, journals, and hymns. Chronicling the early American communities of color from the separatist Christian Indian settlement in upstate New York to the first African Lodge of Freemasons in Boston, it shows how eighteenth-century Black and Indian writers forever shaped the American experience of race and religion. American Lazarus offers a bold new vision of a foundational moment in American literature. It reveals the depth of early Black and Indian intellectual history and reassesses the political, literary, and cultural powers of religion in America. |
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3 | |
Race Religion and Regeneration | 21 |
Samson Occom and the Poetics of Native Revival | 51 |
John Marrant and the Lazarus Theology of the Early Black Atlantic | 87 |
Prince Hall Freemasonry Secrecy Authority and Culture | 115 |
Black Identity and Yellow Fever in Philadelphia | 151 |
Lazarus Lives | 179 |
Samson Occoms Collection of Divine Hymns and Spiritual Songs 1774 | 183 |
AuthorUnknown Hymns Original to Occoms Collection | 187 |
Original Hymns by Samson Occom | 189 |
Notes | 195 |
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Referências a este livro
White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism Phillip Barrish Pré-visualização limitada - 2005 |
Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic James Sidbury Pré-visualização limitada - 2007 |