West, Elizabeth J.,  1957- <br/><br/>
African spirituality in Black women's fiction  threaded visions of memory, community, nature, and being /  [electronic resource] : 
Elizabeth J. West. 
 - Lanham, Md. :  Lexington Books,  2011. 
 - ix, 181 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2011. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.<br/>American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>Spirituality in literature.<br/>African American women authors--Intellectual life.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS153.N5  / W39 2011eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813.009/3827008996073