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“On Being Brought”; Or, Lessons from Reading the “First Black Published Poet” “On Being Brought”; Or, Lessons from Reading the “First Black Published Poet”
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When Phillis Wheatley Writes Letters to her Friends When Phillis Wheatley Writes Letters to her Friends
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“Dear Sister”: Phillis Wheatley, Obour Tanner, and the Pleasures of Friendship “Dear Sister”: Phillis Wheatley, Obour Tanner, and the Pleasures of Friendship
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“Revive in Better Times”: Remembering Phillis Wheatley “Revive in Better Times”: Remembering Phillis Wheatley
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Abstract
This chapter examines the dynamic and affective quality of Phillis Wheatley’s extant letters to Obour Tanner between 1772 and 1779. It argues for a reading of their letters that examines the affective possibilities and religious experiences of Black women, living in New England during the Revolutionary War. For Wheatley, these letters share a deep and abiding faith in a Christian God whose ability to love, create, and author her life inspires this epistolary space of mutual language and exchange. When both women receive letters and presumably read them or have them read, this chapter argues that each access what Audre Lorde calls an “erotic” power upon which their friendship grows. What results on the space of the page is a writerly community. It is a friendship among women who are, quite simply, pleased to hear from the other.
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