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Article: Conversions and Visions in the Writings of African-American Women.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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Kimberly Rae Connor. Conversions and Vision in the Writings of African-American Women. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1994. 317 pp. $34.00.
This book will be of more use to scholars in religious studies than to those in literary criticism or theory. It examines works by three nineteenth-century figures (Harriet Jacobs, Rebecca Cox Jackson, and Sojourner Truth) and one novel by each of four twentieth-century writers (Zora Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker). The book attempts to establish a continuity between the literal conversions recorded in the last century's texts and the "literary" conversion of the contemporary works. Readers are ...