Chapter Seven. Performing Community: Culture, Community, and African American Subjectivity before Emancipation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. Chapter One. The Daughters’ Arrival: Histories, Theories, Vernaculars 10
6. Chapter Two. Diaspora Subjectivity and Transatlantic Crossings: Phillis Wheatley’s Poetics of Recovery 28
7. Chapter Three. “The Too Advent’rous Strain”: Slavery, Conversion, and Poetic Empowerment in Phillis Wheatley’s Elegies 58
8. Chapter Four. “Social Piety” in Ann Plato’s Essays 71
9. Chapter Five. “I Took a Text”: Itinerancy, Community, and Intertextuality in Jarena Lee’s Spiritual Narratives 87
10. Chapter Six. Rituals of Desire: Spirit, Culture, and Sexuality in the Writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson 108
11. Chapter Seven. Performing Community: Culture, Community, and African American Subjectivity before Emancipation 127
12. Afterword. The Sacred Subject 140
13. Notes 143
14. Selected Bibliography 165
15. Index 177