LEADER 03406nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910813560303321 005 20240516120025.0 010 $a1-280-66650-1 010 $a9786613643438 010 $a0-7391-6886-X 035 $a(CKB)2550000000084377 035 $a(EBL)860124 035 $a(OCoLC)775873171 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000799351 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12371571 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000799351 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10763620 035 $a(PQKB)10970008 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000611285 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11394231 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611285 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10666005 035 $a(PQKB)11505095 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL860124 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10532574 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL364343 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC860124 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000084377 100 $a20110920d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfrican spirituality in Black women's fiction $ethreaded visions of memory, community, nature, and being /$fElizabeth J. West 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLanham, Md. $cLexington Books$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (189 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7391-7937-3 311 $a0-7391-6885-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFrom 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. 330 $aAfrican 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. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSpirituality in literature 606 $aAfrican American women authors$xIntellectual life 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSpirituality in literature. 615 0$aAfrican American women authors$xIntellectual life. 676 $a813.009/3827008996073 700 $aWest$b Elizabeth J.$f1957-$01683173 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813560303321 996 $aAfrican spirituality in Black women's fiction$94053781 997 $aUNINA