Goodbye Christ? : Christianity, masculinity, and the new Negro renaissance / Peter Kerry Powers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powers, Peter Kerry, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity in literature.

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

American fiction.

American fiction--African American authors.

Harlem Renaissance.

Religion in literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Race relations in literature.

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Christianity and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Christianity and literature.

Religion and literature.

History.

United States.

Religion and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

x, 236 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Christianity, masculinity, and the new Negro renaissance

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, 2018.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Powers, Peter Kerry, 1959- author, Goodbye Christ?

ISBN:

9781621903734

1621903737

OCLC:

988232096