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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Tisha M. BrooksPublisher: University of Virginia Press Imprint: University of Virginia Press Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780813948928ISBN 10: 0813948924 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 24 March 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of Contents"Acknowledgements Introduction: Unlikely Crossings 1: ""Where have you come from, and where are you going?"": Spirituality and Mobility in Hagar's Narrative 2: Visionary Movement in Zilpha Elaw's Memoirs 3: Colonial and Missionary Crossings in Amanda Smith's An Autobiography 4: Searching for Home in A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince 5: Mapping Sacred Movement in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust 6: Secular Journeys, Sacred Recovery: Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother Coda Bibliography"ReviewsSpirit Deep presents a timely intervention into Black women's figurative and literal travel and literature focusing on the intersection between Black women's mobility/subjectivity and their spirituality/epistemology. --Jami Carlacio, Yale University The literal and literary 'crossings and connections' Brooks cites align perfectly with the fluid line between sacred and secular that characterizes this study and its contents. Spirit Deep further considers the contemporary ways in which the same enduring issues of power raised by nineteenth-century women on the move continue to haunt African Americans' movements in the present. --Kimberly Rae Connor, University of San Francisco, author of Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition Author InformationTisha Brooks is Associate Professor of English and Interim Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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