This project explores the cutting-edge literary theory of spirit discourse in three novels by Afro-feminist writers--- Segu by Maryse Conde, Beloved by Toni Morrison, and Mama Day by Gloria Naylor---to posit that each novel, in transforming ways, signifies on traditional Afrikan spiritual and cultural practices that are in the hybrid culture of the New World Afrikan. More importantly, spirit discourse---the presence, markings, and discursive language that either houses or alludes to a pre-colonial Afrikan gnosis---creates a space for critically analyzing the rituals, customs, beliefs, and sacred and cultural practices that give meaning to mainland and diasporic Afrikanist societies despite the horrific experience of hemispheric slavery. Recovery of the spirit discourse in these postmodern novels reveals the unifying concept of the black feminine principle as the impetus for the cultural transformation of traditional Afrikan patriarchy to New World Afrikan matriarchy.