American Lazarus Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures

Name: American Lazarus Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures
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ISBN: 9780195160789

ISBN-10: 0195160789

ISBN-13: 9780195160789

Edition: 2003

Authors: Joanna Brooks

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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…

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List price: $170.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/11/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 9.29" wide x 5.98" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgements


American Lazarus


Introduction



Race, Religion, and Regeneration



Mohegan, Connecticut; 1768



Berchtown, Nova Scotia; November 1785



Boston, Massachusetts; February 1789



Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; August 1793


Conclusion: Lazarus Lives



Indexed by Author



Author-Unknown Hymns Original to Occom's Collection



Original Hymns by Samson Occom


Notes


Bibliography


Index