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03562aam a2200493 i 4500 001 DE8C3922370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180403010230 008 170523s2017 tnua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2017004064 020 $a 1621903737 020 $a 9781621903734 035 $a (OCoLC)988232096 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d YDX $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS153.N5 $b P69 2018 082 00 $a 810.9/89607307471 $2 23 100 1 $a Powers, Peter Kerry, $d 1959- $e author. 245 10 $a Goodbye Christ? : $b Christianity, masculinity, and the new Negro renaissance / $c Peter Kerry Powers. 246 30 $a Christianity, masculinity, and the new Negro renaissance 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Knoxville : $b The University of Tennessee Press, $c [2017] 300 $a x, 236 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a 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. 600 00 $a Christianity in literature. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Harlem Renaissance. 650 0 $a Religion in literature. 650 0 $a Masculinity in literature. 650 0 $a Race relations in literature. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Religion. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Christianity and literature $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Religion and literature $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Powers, Peter Kerry, 1959- author, $t Goodbye Christ? $b First edition. $d Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, 2018 $z 9781621903741 $w (DLC) 2017025887 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718093030.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116030322.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180403021516.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DE8C3922370411E887D7D95B97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search