Africanism and Authenticity in African-American Women's Novels

''A groundbreaking work that links the lives and culture of African-American women to those of their African sisters. . . . Levin completes the circle of these women's lives and histories by tracing their experiences from Africa to America and back.''--Yvonne Johnson, Central Missouri State University Africanism and Authenticity traces the continuing influence of West African women's traditions and societies on late-20th-century literature by African-American women. The first half of the book fo