Images of the preacher in Afro-American literature / [edited by] Walter C. Daniel University of Missouri-Columbia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daniel, Walter C., editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

African American clergy in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Clergy in literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 241 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : University Press of America, Inc., 1981.

Contents:

Introduction

Paul Laurence Dunbar: Three Preachers in Search of Themselves

James Weldon Johnson: The "Turpentined Imagination"

Walter White: The Preacher's Mask

Zora Neale Hurston's John Pearson: "Battle-Axe" and Saint and Sinner

Langston Hughes' "Big Meetings": Rural and Urban

Richard Wright: Priests and Potency

James Baldwin: Preachers Without Love

Margaret Walker's Brother Ezekiel: Prophet-Priest of the "Invisible Church".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 6-9).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0819116629 :

0819116637

OCLC:

7573998