<span><span><span style="font-style:italic;">African Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction</span><span> 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.</span></span><br /></span>