Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Bassard, Katherine Clay
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	05/01/2011
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Transforming Scriptures is the first sustained treatment of African American women writers' intellectual, even theological, engagements with the Bible. Katherine Clay Bassard looks at poetry, novels, speeches, sermons, and prayers to address a range of issues including biblical justifications of slavery and the second-class status of women.