Powers Divine

Spiritual Autobiography and Black Women's Writing

Tomeiko Ashford Carter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

194 Seiten

2008
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-4184-5 (ISBN)

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Tomeiko Ashford Carter offers insight into the writings of a black female preacher in nineteenth-century America and shows how she helped start a revolution of "spirit-writing". Spirit-writing offered black, female authors a sanctuary where they could create powerful leading female characters who live by their own brands of Christian theology. In Powers Divine, Carter calls attention to subsequent black female writers whose fiction demonstrates the legacies of life and spirit-writing by combining autobiographical information and steadfast reliance on the spiritual. Carter does not leave out black male writers whom she discovers have created their own versions of divine women since the nineteenth-century. Carter finds selected black male writers especially concern themselves with the "imperfections" of the divine heroine. Powers Divine provides unique insight into the personal and professional lives of authors, offering an engaging look at the compelling divine characters they create and the innovative spiritual books they write.

Tomeiko Ashford Carter is Interim Director of the Institute of African American Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Chapter 1 1 "Imaginative" Narrations of Divine Power: Zilpha Elaw, Black Feminist Spiritual Autobiography, and Literary Tradition
Chapter 2 2 Bridging Literary Divides: The Auto/Fictional Spirit-Writings of Harriet Wilson, Frances E. W. Harper, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Chapter 3 3 Embodiments of Theology: Divinity and Maternal Surrogacy
Chapter 4 4 "Standing in the Gap": Intercession, Fractured Womanist Identity, and Healing
Chapter 5 5 The Spiritual "Other": Marginalized Black Feminist Religiosity
Chapter 6 6 Sacred Cosmologies: Theology, Womanism, and Globalism Meet the Science-Fiction World
Chapter 7 7 A Look Toward Divine Female Characterizations by Black Male Writers

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.12.2008
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 233 mm
Gewicht	299 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7618-4184-9 / 0761841849
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-4184-5 / 9780761841845
Zustand	Neuware