Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175) and index.
Contents
Daughters' arrival : histories, theories, vernaculars -- Diaspora subjectivity and transatlantic crossings : Phillis Wheatley's poetics of recovery --"The too advent'rous strain": slavery, conversion, and poetic empowerment in Phillis Wheatley's elegies -- "Social piety" in Ann Plato's Essays -- "I took a text": itinerancy, community, and intertextuality in Jarena Lee's spiritual narratives -- Rituals of desire : spirit, culture, and sexuality in the writings of Rebecca Cox Jackson -- Performing community : culture, community, and African American subjectivity before Emancipation.
