African spirituality in Black women's fiction threaded visions of memory, community, nature, and being /

West, Elizabeth J., 1957-

African spirituality in Black women's fiction threaded visions of memory, community, nature, and being / [electronic resource] : Elizabeth J. West. - Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011. - ix, 181 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From Africa to America -- Wheatley as beginning -- African and Christian encounters in early Black women's writings -- Silencing Africa: Christianity's persistent voice in early Black women's novels -- Christianity and a reawakening Africanity: Black spirituality in the post-reconstruction novels of Frances E. W. Harper and Pauline Hopkins -- Rethinking religiosity in the wake of modernity: transformations of Christian idealisms in the novels of Jessie Fauset -- Transformed religiosities: Africanity and Christianity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's gourd vine and Their eyes were watching God.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780739168868 (electronic bk.)




American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Spirituality in literature.
African American women authors--Intellectual life.


Electronic books.

PS153.N5 / W39 2011

813.009/3827008996073