African Spirituality In Black Women S Fiction
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African Spirituality In Black Women S Fiction
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Author : Elizabeth J. West
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2012-12
African Spirituality In Black Women S Fiction written by Elizabeth J. West and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Sacred Femininity And The Politics Of Affect In African American Women S Fiction
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Author : Vicent Cucarella Ramón
language : en
Publisher: Universitat de València
Release Date : 2018-10-25
Sacred Femininity And The Politics Of Affect In African American Women S Fiction written by Vicent Cucarella Ramón and has been published by Universitat de València this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book presents the way in which African American women writers (Hannah Crafts, Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison) have followed the spiritual endeavor of black Christianity as created by early nineteenth-century spiritual narratives to construct a sacred reading of the black female self. The sacred femininity that puts the ethics and aesthetics of African American women at the center of a certain mode of (African) Americanness relies on a view of spirituality that joins women ontologically and validates affective modes of representation as an innovative means to obtain social and personal empowerment.
Literary Expressions Of African Spirituality
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Author : Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2013-04-11
Literary Expressions Of African Spirituality written by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora, this collection reveals and examines their shared spiritual cosmology. Diasporic in scope, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality offers new readings of black literatures through the prism of spiritual memory that survived the damaging impact of trans-Atlantic slaving. This memory is a significant thread that has often been missed in the reading and teaching of the literatures of the African diaspora. Essays in this collection explore unique black angles of seeing and ways of knowing that characterize African spiritual presence and influence in trans-Atlantic black artistic productions. Essays exploring works ranging from turn-of-the-century African American figure W.E.B. DuBois, South African novelist Zakes Mda, Haitian novelists Edwidge Danticat and Jacques Roumain, as well as African belief systems such as Voudoun and Candomble, provide a scope not yet offered in a single published volume. This collection explores the deep and often unconscious spiritual and psychosocial connectedness of people of African descent in the African and Ameri-Atlantic world.
My Soul Is A Witness
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Author : Carol Henderson
language : en
Publisher: MDPI
Release Date : 2021-03-29
My Soul Is A Witness written by Carol Henderson and has been published by MDPI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-29 with Social Science categories.
This special collection assembles some of the most pre-eminent scholars in the field in African, African American, and American Studies to explore the ways writers reclaim the Black female body in African American literature using the theoretical, social, cultural, and religious frameworks of spirituality and religion. Central to these discussions is Black women’s agency within these realms—their uncanny ability to invent and reinvent themselves within individual and communal spaces that frame them as both outsider and insider, unworthy and worthy, deviant and sacred, excess and minimal. Scholars have sought to discuss these tensions, acknowledged and affirmed in prose, poetry, music, essays, speeches, written plays, or short stories. Forgiveness, healing, redemption, and reclamation provide entry into these vibrant explorations of self-discovery, passion, and self-creation that interrogate traditional views of what is spiritual and what is religious. Discussed writers include Toni Morrison, Phillis Wheatley, James Baldwin, Tina McElroy Ansa, Toni Cade Bambara, and Thomas Dorsey.
Witches Goddesses And Angry Spirits
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Author : Maha Marouan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-07
Witches Goddesses And Angry Spirits written by Maha Marouan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Sacred Femininity And The Politics Of Affect In African American Women S Fiction
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language : en
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Sacred Femininity And The Politics Of Affect In African American Women S Fiction written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Education categories.
Soul Talk
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Author : Gloria T. Hull
language : en
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Release Date : 2001-04
Soul Talk written by Gloria T. Hull and has been published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
In the last few decades African-American women have experienced a revival of spirituality and creative force, fashioning a unique way to connect with the divine. In "Soul Talk", Akasha Gloria Hull examines this multifaceted spirituality that has both fostered personal healing and functioned as a formidable weapon against racism and social injustice.
African Spiritual Traditions In The Novels Of Toni Morrison
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Author : K. Zauditu-Selassie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
African Spiritual Traditions In The Novels Of Toni Morrison written by K. Zauditu-Selassie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Addresses a real need: a scholarly and ritually informed reading of spirituality in the work of a major African American author. No other work catalogues so thoroughly the grounding of Morrison's work in African cosmogonies. Zauditu-Selassie's many readings of Ba Kongo and Yoruba spiritual presence in Morrison's work are incomparably detailed and generally convincing."--Keith Cartwright, University of North Florida Toni Morrison herself has long urged for organic critical readings of her works. K. Zauditu-Selassie delves deeply into African spiritual traditions, clearly explaining the meanings of African cosmology and epistemology as manifest in Morrison's novels. The result is a comprehensive, tour-de-force critical investigation of such works as The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Paradise, Love, Beloved, and Jazz. While others have studied the African spiritual ideas and values encoded in Morrison's work, African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison is the most comprehensive. Zauditu-Selassie explores a wide range of complex concepts, including African deities, ancestral ideas, spiritual archetypes, mythic trope, and lyrical prose representing African spiritual continuities. Zauditu-Selassie is uniquely positioned to write this book, as she is not only a literary critic but also a practicing Obatala priest in the Yoruba spiritual tradition and a Mama Nganga in the Kongo spiritual system. She analyzes tensions between communal and individual values and moral codes as represented in Morrison's novels. She also uses interviews with and nonfiction written by Morrison to further build her critical paradigm.
New Dimensions Of Spirituality
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Author : Karla FC Holloway
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1987-09-22
New Dimensions Of Spirituality written by Karla FC Holloway and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-09-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This series of essays on Toni Morrison's first four novels--The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Sula, and Tar Baby is the delightful, intelligent collaboration of a white of Greek descent (Demetrakopoulos) and a black American (Holloway). In addition to the influence of their respective backgrounds, Demetrakopoulos is particularly interested in women's studies and Jungian psychology, and Holloway in black studies and linguistics; these fields inform their individual contributions. . . . The clear writing is free of academic jargon and makes exceptionally good sense. Very highly recommended to academic libraries, especially for women's studies and black literature collections. Choice This first full-length study of the novels of Toni Morrison is a breakthrough in literary criticism, not only from the standpoint of feminist critique but as a biracial, bicultural dialogue on literary, social, and spiritual themes. Holloway, a specialist in Black studies and psycholinguistics, and Demetrakopoulos, whose academic interests include women's studies and Jungian psychology, weave their multidisciplinary interests and divergent experience into an integrated study of Toni Morrison's novels. The authors' introductory essays put Morrison's work in critical perspective and approach her literary vision in terms of its cultural, racial, and historical linkages and meanings. The novels are then considered chronologically by both authors, who each comment freely on the interpretations and viewpoints of the other.
My Soul Is A Witness
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Author : Gloria Wade-Gayles
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2002-05-11
My Soul Is A Witness written by Gloria Wade-Gayles and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-11 with Literary Collections categories.
My Soul Is a Witness is a powerful collection of poetry, prose, reflections, prayer, and song celebrating spirituality in the lives of African-American women. Featuring a variety of voices including Johnetta B. Cole, Marsye Conde, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Toni Morrison, Iyanla Vanzant, and Alice Walker, this collection demonstrates the diverse ways that women connect with the Spirit. Exploring faiths ranging from Islam to Buddhism to Christianity, these writings illustrate the importance of religion and spirituality in the women of the African-American community. No matter how the Spirit expresses itself in these women's lives, their faith is experienced not just as individuals but also as an inheritance from the women in their community. This anthology will surely touch every sister of the Spirit.