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| Named Person: | Samson Occom |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joanna Brooks |
| ISBN: | 0195160789 9780195160789 |
| OCLC Number: | 50511471 |
| Description: | vi, 255 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Race, religion, and regeneration. -- Samson Occom and the poetics of Native revival. -- John Marrant and the Lazarus theology of the early Black Atlantic. -- Prince Hall Freemasonry: secrecy, authority, and culture. -- Black identity and yellow fever in Philadelphia. -- Conclusion: Lazarus lives. -- Appendix 1: Samson Occom's Collection of divine hymns and spiritual songs (1774) -- Appendix 2: Author-unknown hymns original to Occom's Collection. -- Appendix 3: Original hymns by Samson Occom. |
| Responsibility: | Joanna Brooks. |
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Abstract:
"American Lazarus offers a new vision of a foundational moment in American literature. It reveals the depth of early Black and Indian intellectual history and reassesses the political, literary, and cultural powers of religion in America."--BOOK JACKET.
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- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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