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Early American literature, 2018-01, Vol.53 (1), p.69-85
2018

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Titel
Slave Evangelicalism, Shouting, and the Beginning of African American Writing
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  • Early American literature, 2018-01, Vol.53 (1), p.69-85
Ort / Verlag
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
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Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
  • This essay argues that African American writing emerged as a consequence of slave evangelicalism’s ecstatic worship practices, the frenzied, uncontrollable, and unrehearsed behaviors that are commonly referred to as “shouting.” Persons shout when they are seized by God through the Holy Spirit, and the affective and intellectual qualities slaves acquired while shouting disposed them to take up written discourse and literary culture more broadly as viable enterprises with which to express political dissent and pursue aesthetic fulfillment. This essay establishes shouting’s conceptual formations and contextual features, then reads Richard Allen’s “Spiritual Song” (c. 1800) as well as Jupiter Hammon’s An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York (1786/7) and “The Kind Master and the Dutiful Servant” (n.d.) as works that exemplify how shouting shaped the figural, ideological, and rhetorical dimensions of early black literary and textual productions.
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISSN: 0012-8163, 1534-147X
eISSN: 1534-147X
DOI: 10.1353/eal.2018.0003
Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_journals_2007082333
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"Spiritual Song", "The Kind Master and the Dutiful Servant", 1700-1799, Aesthetics, African american, African American authors, African American literature, African American poets, African Americans, Allen, Hammon, Hammon, Richard,., Jupiter, --approximately 1800., Jupiter, --approximately 1800, Allen, Richard, Allen, Richard (1760-1831), Allen, Richard, Bishop, Allusion, American literature, American prose literature, An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York, An Address to the Negroes of the State of New-York, Antebellum period, Authenticity, Authors, Authorship, Bibliographic literature, Biographies, Black people, Christian Worship, Christianity, colonial period, Cultural heritage, Culture, Davies, Samuel, Double consciousness, Eighteenth Century, English Literature, Enslaved people, Eschatology, Essays, Evangelicalism, evangelism, Exegesis & hermeneutics, God, Hammon, Jupiter, Hammon, Jupiter(ca. 1720-ca. 1800), Hegemony, History, history and archaeology, History and criticism, humanities and the arts, Ideology, Individualism, languages and literature, Literacy, Literary criticism, Literary culture, Literary devices, Literary influences, literary studies, literary tradition, Logic, Morality, Musical performances, Narrative techniques, oral tradition, poetry, political context, Political dissent, Politics, prose, Religion, religious beliefs, Rhetorical question, Servant, shouting, Slavery, Slaves, Source materials, Spirit possession, Spiritual Song (poem), Spirituality, State (polity), Training, United States, Worship, Writing

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