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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Powers Divine: Spiritual Autobiography and Black Women's Writing

Powers Divine: Spiritual Autobiography and Black Women's Writing

Carter, Tomeiko Ashford

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ISBN10: 0761841849
ISBN13: 9780761841845
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: Oct 8 2008
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Tomeiko Ashford Carter offers insight into the writings of a black female preacher in nineteenth-century America and shows how she helped start a revolution of spirit-writing. Spirit-writing offered black, female authors a sanctuary where they could create powerful leading female characters who live by their own brands of Christian theology. In Powers Divine, Carter calls attention to subsequent black female writers whose fiction demonstrates the legacies of life and spirit-writing by combining autobiographical information and steadfast reliance on the spiritual. Carter does not leave out black male writers whom she discovers have created their own versions of divine women since the nineteenth-century. Carter finds selected black male writers especially concern themselves with the imperfections of the divine heroine. Powers Divine provides unique insight into the personal and professional lives of authors, offering an engaging look at the compelling divine characters they create and the innovative spiritual books they write.

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