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"Introduction". Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400822591.3

(1999). Introduction. In Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing (pp. 3-9). Princeton: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400822591.3

1999. Introduction. Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400822591.3

"Introduction" In Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing, 3-9. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400822591.3

Introduction. In: Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 1999. p.3-9. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400822591.3

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

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

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