African Spirituality in Black Women's fiction : threaded visions of memory, community, nature and being / Elizabeth J. West.
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 and Zora Neale...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
2011.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 and Zora Neale Hurston. It is distinct in its employment of a diachronic lens to examine specific African spiritual elements that can be traced from early to modern black women's fiction. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 181 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780739168868 073916886X 0739168851 9780739168851 |