Elizabeth J. West

African Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction

Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being

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Produktbeschreibung

African 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 an...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9780739168851
• ISBN-10: 0739168851
• Artikelnr.: 35338324

Autorenporträt

By Elizabeth J. West

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Chapter 1: From Africa to America Chapter 2: Wheatley as
Beginning Chapter 3: African and Christian Encounters in Early Black
Women's Writings Chapter 4: Silencing Africa: Christianity's Persistent
Voice in Early Black Women's Novels Chapter 5: Christianity and a
Reawakening Africanity: Black Spirituality in the Post-Reconstruction
Novels of Frances E. W. Harper and Pauline Hopkins Chapter 6: Rethinking
Religiosity in the Wake of Modernity: Transformations of Christian
Idealisms in the Novels of Jessie Fauset Chapter 7: 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