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“My Soul Is A Witness”

Reimagining African American Women’s Spirituality and the Black Female Body in African American Literature

Also known as â€My Soul Is A Witness”

by Carol Henderson

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

Description

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This special collection assembles some of the most pre-eminent scholars in the field in African, African American, and American Studies to explore the ways writers reclaim the Black female body in African American literature using the theoretical, social, cultural, and religious frameworks of spirituality and religion. Central to these discussions is Black women’s agency within these realms—their uncanny ability to invent and reinvent themselves within individual and communal spaces that frame them as both outsider and insider, unworthy and worthy, deviant and sacred, excess and minimal. Scholars have sought to discuss these tensions, acknowledged and affirmed in prose, poetry, music, essays, speeches, written plays, or short stories. Forgiveness, healing, redemption, and reclamation provide entry into these vibrant explorations of self-discovery, passion, and self-creation that interrogate traditional views of what is spiritual and what is religious. Discussed writers include Toni Morrison, Phillis Wheatley, James Baldwin, Tina McElroy Ansa, Toni Cade Bambara, and Thomas Dorsey.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists and Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity.

  • Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity

    Controlled discovery queries from doab and gegnir matched “Gnosticism”. Retained metadata contains “Gnosticism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Gnosticism”· via Directory of Open Access Books
    • “Gnosticism”· via Gegnir/Leitir — Icelandic Union Catalogue
    • “Gnosticism”· in subject
  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Retained metadata contains “ghost” in the subject metadata.

    • “ghost”· in subject

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Reimagining African American Women’s Spirituality and the Black Female Body in African American Literature

Directory of Open Access Books edition

2021—English—Open access

Reimagining African American Women's Spirituality and the Black Female Body in African American Literature

Gegnir Icelandic union-catalog record

1 online resource (138 p.); Publication place: Basel, Switzerland

2021MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteEnglish—Catalog record

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doab:20.500.12854/68525
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