Joanna Brooks is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University

American Lazarus launches an important and powerful refiguring of early American literature--a refiguring made possible by contemporary theories of race and colonization, but one governed nevertheless by Brooks's insistence on reading African American and Native American writers of the eighteenth century with rigorous attention to the religious and political contexts that produced them.

• American Lazarus: An Introduction Chapter 1: Race, Religion, and Regeneration Chapter 2: Samson Occom and the Poetics of Native Revival Chapter 3: John Marrant and the Lazarus Theology of the Early Black Atlantic Chapter 4: Prince Hall Freemasonry: Secrecy, Authority, and Culture Chapter 5: Black Identity and Yellow Fever in Philadelphia Conclusion: Lazarus Lives Appendix 1: Samson Occom's Collection of Divine Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1774) Appendix 2: Author-Unknown Hymns Original to Occom's Collection Appendix 3: Original Hymns by Samson Occom Notes Bibliography

Joanna Brooks is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University

American Lazarus launches an important and powerful refiguring of early American literature--a refiguring made possible by contemporary theories of race and colonization, but one governed nevertheless by Brooks's insistence on reading African American and Native American writers of the eighteenth century with rigorous attention to the religious and political contexts that produced them.

• American Lazarus: An Introduction Chapter 1: Race, Religion, and Regeneration Chapter 2: Samson Occom and the Poetics of Native Revival Chapter 3: John Marrant and the Lazarus Theology of the Early Black Atlantic Chapter 4: Prince Hall Freemasonry: Secrecy, Authority, and Culture Chapter 5: Black Identity and Yellow Fever in Philadelphia Conclusion: Lazarus Lives Appendix 1: Samson Occom's Collection of Divine Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1774) Appendix 2: Author-Unknown Hymns Original to Occom's Collection Appendix 3: Original Hymns by Samson Occom Notes Bibliography

Joanna Brooks is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University

American Lazarus launches an important and powerful refiguring of early American literature--a refiguring made possible by contemporary theories of race and colonization, but one governed nevertheless by Brooks's insistence on reading African American and Native American writers of the eighteenth century with rigorous attention to the religious and political contexts that produced them.

• American Lazarus: An Introduction Chapter 1: Race, Religion, and Regeneration Chapter 2: Samson Occom and the Poetics of Native Revival Chapter 3: John Marrant and the Lazarus Theology of the Early Black Atlantic Chapter 4: Prince Hall Freemasonry: Secrecy, Authority, and Culture Chapter 5: Black Identity and Yellow Fever in Philadelphia Conclusion: Lazarus Lives Appendix 1: Samson Occom's Collection of Divine Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1774) Appendix 2: Author-Unknown Hymns Original to Occom's Collection Appendix 3: Original Hymns by Samson Occom Notes Bibliography