“My Soul Is A Witness”

This special collection assembles some of the most pre-eminent scholars in the field in African, African American, and American Studies to explore the ways writers reclaim the Black female body in African American literature using the theoretical, social, cultural, and religious frameworks of spirit...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-685252024-04-08T20:11:23Z “My Soul Is A Witness” Henderson, Carol health healing ancestral mediation illness activism women’s rights spirituality Oshun eroticism God Oya ghost spirits honey storms caul the amen corner james baldwin black feminism sermon art literature music black preacher religion gospel music Thomas Dorsey Nettie Dorsey blues maternal death infant mortality hapticality Gnosticism womanist theology African American women Toni Morrison Song of Solomon Paradise The Source of Self-Regard Phillis Wheatley race Thomas Jefferson Christianity African American women writers 1970 extra-naturalism African American women’s spirituality nommo multimodal narrative self-actualization community asylum hill project naming pre-emancipation genealogy grounds of contention (in)visible revisionist interrogation spiritual translation uppity womanist n/a bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs This special collection assembles some of the most pre-eminent scholars in the field in African, African American, and American Studies to explore the ways writers reclaim the Black female body in African American literature using the theoretical, social, cultural, and religious frameworks of spirituality and religion. Central to these discussions is Black women’s agency within these realms—their uncanny ability to invent and reinvent themselves within individual and communal spaces that frame them as both outsider and insider, unworthy and worthy, deviant and sacred, excess and minimal. Scholars have sought to discuss these tensions, acknowledged and affirmed in prose, poetry, music, essays, speeches, written plays, or short stories. Forgiveness, healing, redemption, and reclamation provide entry into these vibrant explorations of self-discovery, passion, and self-creation that interrogate traditional views of what is spiritual and what is religious. Discussed writers include Toni Morrison, Phillis Wheatley, James Baldwin, Tina McElroy Ansa, Toni Cade Bambara, and Thomas Dorsey. 2021-05-01T15:11:57Z 2021-05-01T15:11:57Z 2021 book ONIX_20210501_9783036500829_271 9783036500829 9783036500836 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68525 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3546 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3546 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-0365-0083-6 10.3390/books978-3-0365-0083-6 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783036500829 9783036500836 138 Basel, Switzerland open access
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healing
ancestral mediation
illness
activism
women’s rights
spirituality
Oshun
eroticism
God
Oya
ghost
spirits
honey
storms
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the amen corner
james baldwin
black feminism
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art
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music
black preacher
religion
gospel music
Thomas Dorsey
Nettie Dorsey
blues
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infant mortality
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womanist theology
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Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
Paradise
The Source of Self-Regard
Phillis Wheatley
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Thomas Jefferson
Christianity
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1970
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African American women’s spirituality
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topic health
healing
ancestral mediation
illness
activism
women’s rights
spirituality
Oshun
eroticism
God
Oya
ghost
spirits
honey
storms
caul
the amen corner
james baldwin
black feminism
sermon
art
literature
music
black preacher
religion
gospel music
Thomas Dorsey
Nettie Dorsey
blues
maternal death
infant mortality
hapticality
Gnosticism
womanist theology
African American women
Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
Paradise
The Source of Self-Regard
Phillis Wheatley
race
Thomas Jefferson
Christianity
African American women writers
1970
extra-naturalism
African American women’s spirituality
nommo
multimodal narrative
self-actualization
community
asylum hill project
naming
pre-emancipation
genealogy
grounds of contention
(in)visible
revisionist interrogation
spiritual translation
uppity
womanist
n/a
bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs
topic_facet health
healing
ancestral mediation
illness
activism
women’s rights
spirituality
Oshun
eroticism
God
Oya
ghost
spirits
honey
storms
caul
the amen corner
james baldwin
black feminism
sermon
art
literature
music
black preacher
religion
gospel music
Thomas Dorsey
Nettie Dorsey
blues
maternal death
infant mortality
hapticality
Gnosticism
womanist theology
African American women
Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
Paradise
The Source of Self-Regard
Phillis Wheatley
race
Thomas Jefferson
Christianity
African American women writers
1970
extra-naturalism
African American women’s spirituality
nommo
multimodal narrative
self-actualization
community
asylum hill project
naming
pre-emancipation
genealogy
grounds of contention
(in)visible
revisionist interrogation
spiritual translation
uppity
womanist
n/a
bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs
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