“I Took Up the Hymn-Book”: Rhetoric of Hymnody in Jarena Lee’s Call to Preach

Author:

Minifee Paul A.1

Affiliation:

1. San Diego State University

Abstract

ABSTRACT Through examining Jarena Lee’s employment of hymns in her spiritual autobiography, The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee, a Coloured Lady, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel, I demonstrate how hymnody, a largely understudied literary genre in rhetorical studies, proved a critical instrument in authenticating her spiritual conversion and validating her qualifications to serve as a ministerial leader. Using Chaim Perelman’s concept of “presence” and recent research in neuroscience (on the brain and music) I show how Lee’s excerpts of the nineteenth century’s most popular hymns create an aural ambience reminiscent of a worship service that engages her Christian readers’ pathos and sense of piety in order to disengage their prejudice against her race and gender.

Publisher

The Pennsylvania State University Press

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Communication,Language and Linguistics

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