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American Lazarus : religion and the rise of African-American and native American literatures

Author: Joanna Brooks
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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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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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"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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