African spirituality in Black women's fiction threaded visions of memory, community, nature, and being /

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Huvudskapare: West, Elizabeth J., 1957-
Institutionell skapare: ebrary, Inc
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • 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.