03406nam 2200697 a 450 991081356030332120240516120025.01-280-66650-197866136434380-7391-6886-X(CKB)2550000000084377(EBL)860124(OCoLC)775873171(SSID)ssj0000799351(PQKBManifestationID)12371571(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000799351(PQKBWorkID)10763620(PQKB)10970008(SSID)ssj0000611285(PQKBManifestationID)11394231(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611285(PQKBWorkID)10666005(PQKB)11505095(Au-PeEL)EBL860124(CaPaEBR)ebr10532574(CaONFJC)MIL364343(MiAaPQ)EBC860124(EXLCZ)99255000000008437720110920d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfrican spirituality in Black women's fiction threaded visions of memory, community, nature, and being /Elizabeth J. West1st ed.Lanham, Md. Lexington Books20111 online resource (189 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-7937-3 0-7391-6885-1 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.African Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction traces the beginnings and transformations of African spirituality in African American women's literature, and culminates with an examination of its return to center stage in the fiction of black Renaissance writers, Nella Larsen and Zora Neale Hurston. It is distinct in its employment of a diachronic lens to examine specific African spiritual elements that can be traced from early to modern black women's fiction.American fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismSpirituality in literatureAfrican American women authorsIntellectual lifeAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Spirituality in literature.African American women authorsIntellectual life.813.009/3827008996073West Elizabeth J.1957-1683173MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813560303321African spirituality in Black women's fiction4053781UNINA