African spirituality in Black women's fiction : threaded visions of memory, community, nature, and being / / Elizabeth J. West.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 181 p. |
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Table of 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.