Early American Women Critics Performance Religion Race 1st Edition by Gay Gibson Cima ISBN 0521847338 978-0521847339

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ISBN 10: 0521847338

ISBN 13: 978-0521847339

Author: Gay Gibson Cima

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.

Table of contents: 

Introduction

1. Colonial women critics: performing religion, race, possession, and pornography

2. Revolutionary women critics: performing rational Christianity, patriotism, and race

3. Republican women critics: performing Christian activism, American culture, and race

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