Collier-Thomas, Bettye. Daughters of Thunder: Black women preachers and their sermons, 1850 -1979. San Francisco: Jossey - Bass, 1998. Print.
Author, Bettye Collier - Thomas, in her book, Daughters of Thunder and their Sermons, writes about “the history of African American preaching women and the issues and struggles they confronted in their efforts to function as ministers and to become ordained” (xv). Her writing suggests that we gain a deeper understanding of the history of the Black Church and African American women’s roles in light of its institution itself and powerful theology that propels it. Her study contributes to the purpose of my dissertation topic, because it clearly notes a century of African American women’s sermons, which brings me closer to developing a discourse on how the church portrays Black female characters, in American literature.
Harris, Trudier. Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin. Knosville: University Tennessee
Press, 1985. Print.
Trudier Harris, in her book, Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin claims that Black female characters presented in her study “progress from trying to find sactuary in the church to realizing …show more content…
He examines the “recurring theme” bondslave and demonstrates how it is used in positive ways. Johnson makes this discovery when he created an annotated a bibliography, for The Bible in Afro – American Life and Letters (Johnson v). Evidence presented in his book specifically relates to my dissertation, because it helps me strictly focus on the bondslave motif particularly in the literary works of Phyllis Wheatley’s (1773), Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s (1852), Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and James Baldwin’s (1953), Go Tell it on the
Author, Bettye Collier - Thomas, in her book, Daughters of Thunder and their Sermons, writes about “the history of African American preaching women and the issues and struggles they confronted in their efforts to function as ministers and to become ordained” (xv). Her writing suggests that we gain a deeper understanding of the history of the Black Church and African American women’s roles in light of its institution itself and powerful theology that propels it. Her study contributes to the purpose of my dissertation topic, because it clearly notes a century of African American women’s sermons, which brings me closer to developing a discourse on how the church portrays Black female characters, in American literature.
Harris, Trudier. Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin. Knosville: University Tennessee
Press, 1985. Print.
Trudier Harris, in her book, Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin claims that Black female characters presented in her study “progress from trying to find sactuary in the church to realizing …show more content…
He examines the “recurring theme” bondslave and demonstrates how it is used in positive ways. Johnson makes this discovery when he created an annotated a bibliography, for The Bible in Afro – American Life and Letters (Johnson v). Evidence presented in his book specifically relates to my dissertation, because it helps me strictly focus on the bondslave motif particularly in the literary works of Phyllis Wheatley’s (1773), Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s (1852), Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and James Baldwin’s (1953), Go Tell it on the