evolutionary spirituality, sexuality, and identity : an anthology
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ferguson, Sally Ann H.
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 2008
- Thesaurus
- zwarte literatuur, religie, spiritualiteit, slavernij, geweld, biologie, seksualiteit, identiteit, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, autobiografie, bloemlezing
- Description
- In this anthology SallyAnn H. Ferguson presents a number of important spiritual and autobiographical writings by African American women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. .Ferguson places the texts in an evolutionary discourse. Women of African descent were subjected to slavery, rape, and ideological derision throughout American history, in part due to deeply ingrained biological imperatives within European American men. Despite this the African-American woman has consciously developed a literary tradition based on fundamental evolutionary principles of mind and body. Authors: Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879): Jarena Lee (1783-?): Harriet E. Adams Wilson (1828?-1863?) : Harriet A. Jacobs (1813-1897): Elizabeth Keckley (1818?-1907): Frances E. Watkins Harper (1824-1911): Charlotte L. Forten Grimké (1837-1914): Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964): Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931): Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958)