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Transforming Scriptures - African American Women Writers and the Bible (Paperback, Revised)
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Transforming Scriptures - African American Women Writers and the Bible (Paperback, Revised)
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Transforming Scriptures is the first sustained treatment of African
American women writers' intellectual, even theological, engagements
with the book Northrop Frye referred to as the "great code" of
Western civilization. Katherine Clay Bassard looks at poetry,
novels, speeches, sermons, and prayers by Maria W. Stewart, Frances
Harper, Hannah Crafts, Harriet E. Wilson, Harriet Jacobs, Zora
Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Sherley Anne Williams and
discusses how such texts respond as a collective "literary witness"
to the use of the Bible for purposes of social domination. Black
women's historic encounters with the Bible were, indeed,
transformational; in the process of "turning cursing into blessing"
these women were both shaped and reshaped by the scriptures they
appropriated for their own self-representation. Two important
biblical figures emerge as key tropes around which women fashioned
a counternarrative to the dominant culture's "curse" on black
female identity: the "talking mule" from Numbers 22 and the "black
but comely" Shulamite of Song of Songs, the Queen of Sheba.
Transforming Scriptures analyzes these tropes within a range of
contexts, from biblical justifications of slavery and the
second-class status of women to hermeneutical and post-structural
critiques of the Bible. African American women's appropriations of
scripture occur within a continuum of African American
Bible-reading practices and religious or ideological commitments,
argues Bassard. There is thus no single "black women's
hermeneutic"; rather, theories of African American women and the
Bible must account for historical and social change and difference.
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