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Author West, Elizabeth J., 1957-

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

Imprint Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011.

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Description ix, 181 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Spirituality in literature.
African American women authors -- Intellectual life.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780739168851 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739168868 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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