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Author Brooks, Joanna, 1971-

Title American lazarus : religion and the rise of african-american and native american literatures
Published New York : Oxford Univ Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents Introduction; 1: Race, Religion, and Regeneration; 2: Samson Occom and the Poetics of Native Revival; 3: John Marrant and the Lazarus Theology of the Early Black Atlantic; 4: Prince Hall Freemasonry: Secrecy, Authority, and Culture; 5: Black Identity and Yellow Fever in Philadelphia; Conclusion: Lazarus Lives; Appendix 1: Samson Occom's Collection of Divine Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1774); Appendix 2: Author-Unknown Hymns Original to Occom's Collection; Appendix 3: Original Hymns by Samson Occom; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary The 1780s and 1790s were a critical era for communities of colour in the new United States of America. Even Thomas Jefferson observed that in the aftermath of the American Revolution, "the spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the dust." This book explores the means by which the very first Black and Indian authors rose up to transform their communities and the course of American literary history. It argues that the origins of modern African-American and American Indian literatures emerged at the revolutionary crossroads of religion and racial formation as early Black a
Subject Occom, Samson, 1723-1792.
Occom, Samson, 1723-1792
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
Christianity and literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century
American literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 -- History and criticism
American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism
American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism
Hymns, English -- United States -- History and criticism
Christian literature, American -- History and criticism
Indians of North America -- Intellectual life
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Indians in literature.
African Americans in literature
African Americans -- Intellectual life
American literature
American literature -- African American authors
American literature -- Colonial period
American literature -- Indian authors
American literature -- Revolutionary period (United States)
Christian literature, American
Christianity and literature
Hymns, English
Indians in literature
Indians of North America -- Intellectual life
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1602569703
9781602569706