RT Book
T1 Goodbye Christ?: Christianity, masculinity, and the new Negro Renaissance
A1 Powers, Peter Kerry 1959-
LA English
PP Knoxville
PB The University of Tennessee Press
YR 2018
ED First edition
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/889013721
AB "This book discusses the role of religion, or more specifically the shunning of a predominant white view of religion for a more independent black religious voice, in the writings of authors active during the Harlem Renaissance. Powers discusses the work of Du Bois, Hurston, Larsen, Toomer, and others and contends that religious contexts shaped the rhetoric and imagination of African American writers during the Harlem Renaissance, and, to a degree, dispelled previous religious notions of masculinity for a more secular view" --
AB Introduction. Intimate Distance-Faith and Doubts of the Cultural Fathers -- Chapter 1. "Old as Religion, as Delphi and Endor": Secular Patrimony in Souls of Black Folk -- Chapter 2. "He Didn't Come to Help Me": Folk Paternity and Failed Conversions in Langston Hughes -- Chapter 3. "Artificial Men": Anti-intellectualism, Christianity, and Cultural Leadership -- Chapter 4. "Leave All That Littleness and Look Higher": The Educated Man as Hero and Martyr -- Chapter 5. "That Good Man, That Godly Man": Abusive Ministers and Educated Lovers in Oscar Micheaux and Nella Larsen -- Chapter 6. "A Polished Man of Strength and Power": Race, Body, and Spirit in the Harlem Renaissance -- Chapter 7. "The Singing Man Who Must Be Reckoned With": Private Desire and Public Responsibility in the Poetry of Countee Cullen -- Chapter 8. "Gods of Physical Violence, Stopping at Nothing": Masculinity, Physicality, and Creativity in Zora Neale Hurston -- Conclusion. Goodbye Christ? Christianity and African American Literary History
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 219-231
CN PS153.N5
SN 9781621903734
K1 Christianity in literature
K1 Harlem Renaissance
K1 American fiction : African American authors : History and criticism
K1 Religion in literature
K1 Masculinity in literature
K1 Race relations in literature
K1 African Americans : Religion
K1 American fiction : 20th century : History and criticism
K1 Christianity and literature : United States : History : 20th century
K1 Religion and literature : United States : History : 20th century