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Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative (History of African-American...
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by YOLANDA PIERCE
Sales Rank: 684124
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 168 pages
Published by: University Press of FloridaEdition: 1st Edition March 12, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 081302806X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0813028064
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 12.8 ounces
Product Review
"An innovative and brilliant analysis of five antebellum slave narratives." -- CHOICE, October, 2005
Product Description
Hell Without Fires looks at the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Using autobiographical narratives, the book shows how black writers transformed the earthly hell of Slavery into a "New Jerusalem," a place they could call home. Yolanda Pierce insists that for African Americans, accounts of spiritual conversion revealed "personal transformations with far-reaching community effects. A personal experience of an individual's relationship with God is transformed into the possibility of liberating an entire community." The process of conversion could result in miraculous literacy, "callings" to preach, a renewed resistance to the slave condition, defiance of racist and sexist conventions, and communal uplift.
These stories by five of the earliest antebellum spiritual writers--George White, John Jea, David Smith, Solomon Bayley, and Zilpha Elaw--create a new religious language that merges Christian scripture with distinct retellings of biblical stories, with enslaved people of African descent at their center. Showing the ways their language exploits the levels of meaning of words like master, slavery, sin, and flesh, Pierce argues that the narratives address the requirements of those who attempted to transform a foreign god and religion into a personal and collective system of beliefs. The earthly "hell without fires"--one of the writer's characterizations of everyday life for those living in slavery--could become a place where an individual could be both black and Christian, and religion could offer bodily and psychological healing. Pierce presents a complex and subtle assessment of the language of conversion in the context of slavery. Her work will be important to those interested in the topics of slave religion and spiritual autobiography and to scholars of African American and early American literature and religion.
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