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Colored Women Sittin' on High

By Hill, Melanie R.

Colored Women Sittin' on High Books

Colored Women Sittin' on High

By Hill, Melanie R.

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"From blue-note turmoil to grace-note power, Black women preachers stand tall. In Colored Women Sittin' on High, Melanie R. Hill offers a new perspective on the art of the sermon in African American literature, music, and theology. Drawing on the womanist cadence of Alice Walker in literature and the rhythmical flow of named womanist theologians, Hill makes interventions at the intersections of African American literary criticism, music, and religious studies. Pushing against the patriarchal dominance that often exists in religious spaces, Hill argues that Black women's religious practice creates a 'sermonic space' that thrives inside and outside the church, allowing for a critique of sexism and anti-Black racism. She examines literature by writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and James Baldwin, music by Aretha Franklin and Ms. Lauryn Hill, and sermons by theologians Ruby Sales and Vashti M. McKenzie, and she takes readers into a sermonic artwork of artists, preachers, and freedom movement activists who are, as Hill contends, the greatest 'virtuosic alchemists' of our time"--
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
322
Release Date:
2025-04-29
Publication Date:
2025-04-29
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1469685094
ISBN13:
9781469685090
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
550 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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