Spiritual Narratives

by Maria W. Stewart, Jarena Lee, Julia A. J. Foote, Virginia W. Broughton, S. E. Houchins (Introduction)

Overview

These narratives by four famous black woman preachers and evangelists, published between 1835 and 1907, all share a theme that continues to dominate Afro-American literature even today: the power of Christianity to give strength and comfort in the struggle for liberation from caste and gender restrictions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195052664
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/14/1988
Series:	The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Pages:	498
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 6.75(h) x 1.51(d)

Editorial Reviews

"These itinerant black women preachers whose autobiogaphies occasionally read like travelogues—or in the case of Maria Stewart, a mournful adieu upon embarkation—were living out on the geographical landscape the metaphor of their psychic and spiritual journey, were literalizing the quest for a locus of freedom..."—Sue E. Houchins, in her Introduction

"Thanks to Sue Houchins and the Schomburg Library for making these texts available, expecially the writings of Maria Stewart and Jarena Lee. They revolutionize staid conceptions of religious experience, American Christianity, and the spirituality of politics and history. These are the classics that students need to read."—Jennifer Rycenga, Pomona College

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