American Lazarus : religion and the rise of African-American and native American literatures
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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (vi, 255 pages)
9780195347722, 9780195160789, 9781280503191, 0195347722, 0195160789, 128050319X
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Race, religion, and regeneration
Samson Occom and the poetics of Native revival
John Marrant and the Lazarus theology of the early Black Atlantic
Prince Hall Freemasonry: secrecy, authority, and culture
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