02082nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10386252 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 090819s2010 gau sb 001 0 eng 2009032883 9780820330907 (hardcover) 0820330906 (hardcover) 9780820336138 9780820330907 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)615629321 PS153.N5 B34 2010eb 810.9/3822082 22 Bassard, Katherine Clay, 1959- Transforming scriptures [electronic resource] : African American women writers and the Bible / Katherine Clay Bassard. Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2010. viii, 166 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. Talking mules and troubled hermeneutics: Black women's biblical self-disclosures -- Private interpretations: the Bible defense of slavery and nineteenth-century racial hermeneutics -- Sampling the scriptures: Maria W. Stewart and the genre of prayer -- Hannah's craft: biblical passing in The bondwoman's narrative -- "Beyond mortal vision": identification and miscegenation in the Joseph cycle and Harriet E. Wilson's Our nig -- And the greatest of these: eros, philos, and agape in two contemporary Black women's novels. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Bible In literature. American literature African American authors History and criticism. American literature Women authors History and criticism. African American women Religion. African American women in literature. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10386252 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 100717 100717