Title:	American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures
Authors:	Brooks, Joanna
Keywords:	History and criticism
Issue Date:	2003
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Description:	American Lazarus tells a story of redemption and regeneration. It reconstructs the founding moments of African-American and Native American literatures. These American literary traditions emerged during the era of the American Revolution, when blacks and Indians faced not only the crushing legacies of slavery and colonization but also the chaos of war, epidemic, resettlement, exile, and the political uncertainties of the new nation. In this portentous and dangerous time, pioneering black and Indian writers used literature to create a new future for their peoples. They redirected the democratizing, charismatic, and separatist energies of American evangelicalism and its powerful doctrine of rebirth into the formation of new religious communities, new theologies, and new literatures for people of color. By adapting, politicizing, and indigenizing mainline religious discourses, African-Americans and Native Americans also established a platform for their critical interventions into early national formulations of race. This book tells the story of how the earliest black and Indian authors established themselves as visionary interlocutors of secular nationalism and the American Enlightenment.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/72995
ISBN:	0195160789
Appears in Collections:	History

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