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African spirituality in Black women's fiction : threaded visions of memory, community, nature, and being
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African spirituality in Black women's fiction : threaded visions of memory, community, nature, and being / Elizabeth J. West.
ISBN
9780739168851 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739168851 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739168868 (ebook)
073916886X (ebook)
Published
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.
Physical Description
ix, 181 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 20, 2016
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.
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