African spirituality in Black women's fiction [electronic resource] : threaded visions of memory, community, nature, and being / Elizabeth J. West.

By: West, Elizabeth J, 1957-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011Description: ix, 181 pISBN: 9780739168868 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism | American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Spirituality in literature | African American women authors -- Intellectual lifeGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 813.009/3827008996073 LOC classification: PS153.N5 | W39 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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