Early American Women Critics - Performance, Religion, Race (Hardcover)

Early American Women Critics demonstrates that performances of various kinds - religious, political and cultural - enabled women to enter the human rights debates that roiled the American colonies and young republic. Black and white women staked their claims on American citizenship through disparate performances of spirit possession, patriotism, poetic and theatrical production. They protected themselves within various shields which allowed them to speak openly while keeping the individual basis of their identities invisible. Cima shows that between the First and Second Great Religious Awakenings (1730s-1830s), women from West Africa, Europe, and various corners of the American colonies self-consciously adopted performance strategies that enabled them to critique American culture and establish their own diverse and contradictory claims on the body politic. This book restores the primacy of religious performances - Christian, Yoruban, Bantu and Muslim - to the study of early American cultural and political histories, revealing that religion and race are inseparable.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Gay Gibson Cima
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-84733-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-521-84733-8
Barcode:	9780521847339

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