Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth CenturyWilliam L. Andrews Indiana University Press, 1986 - 245 páginas "In Sisters of the Spirit three black American women recreate their lives and proclaim their faith in themselves as women with an empowering mission. As preachers of the Christian gospel, Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, and Julia Foote helped to launch a feminist revolution in American religious life and in American society as a whole. In 1836, The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee challenged traditional female roles with an argument for women's spiritual authority. Zilpha Elaw's Memoirs (1846) recounts not only its author's struggle for legitimacy as a preacher but also her dangerous preaching missions to the slave states. After the Civil War, Julia Foote's A Brand Plucked from the Fire (1879) testifies to the growth of a more explicitly feminist message in black women's spiritual autobiography. These three autobiographies are important literary and historical documents, as well as valuable self-portraits of three major forebears of the black feminist literary traition in America"--Back cover. |
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TEXTUAL NOTE | 23 |
Memoirs of the Life Religious Experience Ministerial | 49 |
An Autobiographical | 161 |
NOTES | 235 |
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