Goodbye Christ /

Despite the proliferation of criticism on the cultural work of the Harlem Renaissance over the course of the past two decades, surprisingly few critics have focused on the ways in which religious contexts shaped the works of New Negro writers and artists during that time. In Goodbye Christ? Masculin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Powers, Peter Kerry, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2017]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Schwarze
Männlichkeit > Motiv
Literatur
Harlem renaissance
Ethnische Identität > Motiv
Christentum > Motiv
Religion in literature.
Religion and literature.
Race relations in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Harlem Renaissance.
Christianity in literature.
Christianity and literature.
American fiction > African American authors.
American fiction.
African Americans > Religion.
Religion et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Christianisme et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Noirs americains > Religion.
Relations raciales dans la litterature.
Masculinite dans la litterature.
Religion dans la litterature.
Roman americain > Auteurs noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
Christianisme dans la litterature.
Religion and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Christianity and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
USA
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Intimate distance : faith and doubts of the cultural fathers
  • "Old as religion, as Delphi and Endor" : Secular patrimony in The Souls of Black Folk
  • "He Didn't Come to Help Me" : folk paternity and failed conversions in Langston Hughes
  • "Artificial Men" : anti-intellectualism, Christianity, and cultural leadership
  • "Leave All That Littleness and Look Higher" : the educated man as hero and martyr
  • "That Good Man, That Godly Man" : abusive ministers and educated lovers in Oscar Micheaux and Nella Larsen
  • "A Polished Man of Strength and Power" : race, body, and spirit in the Harlem Renaissance
  • "The Singing Man Who Must Be Reckoned With" : private desire and public responsibility in the poetry of Countee Cullen
  • "Gods of Physical Violence, Stopping at Nothing" : masculinity, physicality, and creativity in Zora Neale Hurston
  • Conclusion : Goodbye Christ? : Christianity and African American literary history.

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