"My Soul Is A Witness" Reimagining African American Women's Spirituality and the Black Female Body in African American Literature

• अन्य लेखक: Henderson, Carol (संपादक)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• विषय: Religion & beliefs; health; healing; ancestral mediation; illness; activism; women's rights; spirituality; Oshun; eroticism; God; Oya; ghost; spirits; honey; storms; caul; the amen corner; james baldwin; black feminism; sermon; art; literature; music; black preacher; religion; gospel music; Thomas Dorsey; Nettie Dorsey; blues; maternal death; infant mortality; hapticality; Gnosticism; womanist theology; African American women; Toni Morrison; Song of Solomon; Paradise; The Source of Self-Regard; Phillis Wheatley; race; Thomas Jefferson; Christianity; African American women writers; 1970; extra-naturalism; African American women's spirituality; nommo; multimodal narrative; self-actualization; community; asylum hill project; naming; pre-emancipation; genealogy; grounds of contention; (in)visible; revisionist interrogation; spiritual translation; uppity; womanist; n/a
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 spirit...