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Author:
West, Elizabeth J., 1957- author.
Title:
African spirituality in Black women's fiction : threaded visions of memory, community, nature, and being / Elizabeth J. West.
Edition:
First paperback edition.
Publisher:
Lexington Books,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
x, 177 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Spirituality in literature.
African American women authors--Intellectual life.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
From Africa to America -- Wheatley as beginning -- African and Christian encounters in early Black women's writings -- Africa silenced : 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 Redmon 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.
ISBN:
0739179373 (paperback)
9780739179376 (paperback)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)827579677
Locations:
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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