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Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race
by Gay Gibson Cima
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0521847338
- ISBN 13
- 9780521847339
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Hardback. New. Early American Women Critics provides a new history and analysis of the commentaries, written and spoken, circulated by early American women between the First and Second Great Religious Awakenings (1730s-1840s). Cima introduces readers to where, how and why women critics launched their commentaries on race, religion, gender and nation.
Synopsis
Early American Women Critics demonstrates that performances of various kinds - religious, political, and cultural - enabled women to enter the human rights debates that roiled the American colonies and young republic. Black and white women staked their claims on American citizenship through disparate performances of spirit possession, patriotism, poetic and theatrical production. They protected themselves within various shields which allowed them to speak openly while keeping the individual basis of their identities invisible. Cima shows that between the First and Second Great Religious Awakenings (1730s 1830s), women from West Africa, Europe, and various corners of the American colonies self-consciously adopted performance strategies that enabled them to critique American culture and establish their own diverse and contradictory claims on the body politic. This book restores the primacy of religious performances - Christian, Yoruban, Bantu, and Muslim - to the study of early American cultural and political histories, revealing that religion and race are inseparable.
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- Title
- Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race
- Author
- Gay Gibson Cima
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- New New
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0521847338
- ISBN 13
- 9780521847339
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- This edition first published
- June 12, 2006
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