African Spirituality in Black Women?s Fiction
Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being
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Product details:
- Publisher Lexington Books
- Date of Publication 10 November 2011
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780739168851
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 240x161x17 mm
- Weight 445 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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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African Spirituality in Black Women?s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being is the nexus to scholarship on manifestations of Africanisms in black art and culture, particularly the scant critical works focusing on African metaphysical retentions. This study examines New World African spirituality as a syncretic dynamic of spiritual retentions and transformations that have played prominently in the literary imagination of black women writers. Beginning with the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, African Spirituality in Black Women?s Fiction traces applications and transformations of African spirituality in black women?s writings that culminate in the conscious and deliberate celebration of Africanity in Hurston?s Their Eyes Were Watching God. The journey from Wheatley?s veiled remembrances to Hurston?s explicit gaze of continental Africa represents the literary journey of black women writers to represent Africa as not only a very real creative resource but also a liberating one. Hurston?s icon of black female autonomy and self realization is woven from the thread work of African spiritual principles that date back to early black women?s writings.
West's fine study adds to a growing body of literature demonstrating the impact of African heritage on African American culture. West (Georgia State Univ.) makes an important advance on this tradition, exploring ways in which African spirituality is woven into the more obvious Christian elements of the works. This clearly written, well-researched study treats the canon of African women's literature from Phillis Wheatley through the Harlem Renaissance. The author discusses well-known works--Frances Harper's Iola Leroy, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents of the Life of a Slave Girl, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Nella Larsen's Quicksand--but is at her best in her exploration of less-familiar texts, e.g., Hannah Crafts's The Bondswoman's Narrative; Gifts of Power, a collection of Rebecca Jackson's writings (CH, Dec'81); and Jarena Lee's Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee....The specificity of the topic makes the book most appropriate for large collections. Summing Up: Recommended.
Table of Contents:
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
African Spirituality in Black Women?s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being
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