TY - BOOK AU - West,Elizabeth J. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - African spirituality in Black women's fiction: threaded visions of memory, community, nature, and being AV - PS153.N5 W39 2011 U1 - 813.009/3827008996073 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Lexington Books KW - American fiction KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Women authors KW - Spirituality in literature KW - African American women authors KW - Intellectual life KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=860124 ER -