Transforming scriptures African American women writers and the Bible / [electronic resource] :
Katherine Clay Bassard.
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2010.
- viii, 166 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Talking mules and troubled hermeneutics: Black women's biblical self-disclosures -- Private interpretations: the Bible defense of slavery and nineteenth-century racial hermeneutics -- Sampling the scriptures: Maria W. Stewart and the genre of prayer -- Hannah's craft: biblical passing in The bondwoman's narrative -- "Beyond mortal vision": identification and miscegenation in the Joseph cycle and Harriet E. Wilson's Our nig -- And the greatest of these: eros, philos, and agape in two contemporary Black women's novels.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Bible--In literature.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism. American literature--Women authors--History and criticism. African American women--Religion. African American women in literature.