Title Spirit in the dark : a religious history of racial aesthetics / Josef Sorett

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents Prologue: Are you getting the spirit? -- Introduction: Church, spirit, and the history of racial aesthetics -- The church and the Negro spirit -- Ancestral spirits -- Catholic spirits -- As the spirit moves -- An international spirit -- That spirit is Black -- Contrary spirits -- Epilogue: You can't keep a good church down! Summary 'Spirit in the Dark' tells the story of the many ways that ideas about religion animated and organized African American literary visions across the years between the Negro Renaissance of the 1920s and the Black Arts movement of the 1960s. In doing so, it unveils the contours of a literary history that remained preoccupied with religion even as it was typically understood by authors, readers, and critics alike, as modern and secular Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Audience Specialized Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 07, 2019) Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Religion in literature. African Americans in literature. Black people -- Race identity -- United States LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African Americans in literature American literature -- African American authors Black people -- Race identity Religion and literature Religion in literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780190606640 0190606649 9780199844944 0199844941

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