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

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.
Local noteLittle-305131061633W
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011036294
ISBN9780739168851 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0739168851 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780739168868 (ebook)
ISBN073916886X (ebook)

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Joyner General Stacks PS153.B53 W39 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold