African spirituality in Black women's fiction
Subtitle: threaded visions of memory, community, nature, and being
By: Elizabeth J. West
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739168851; 9780739168868
Subjects: Women authors; Spirituality in literature; African American authors; Intellectual life; American fiction; History and criticism; African American women authors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From Africa to America; title: Wheatley as beginning; title: African and Christian encounters in early Black women's writings; title: Silencing Africa: Christianity's persistent voice in early Black women's novels; title: Christianity and a reawakening Africanity: Black spirituality in the post-reconstruction novels of Frances E. W. Harper and Pauline Hopkins; title: Rethinking religiosity in the wake of modernity: transformations of Christian idealisms in the novels of Jessie Fauset; title: 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.