Bibliograph

Spirit in the dark, a religious history of racial aesthetics, Josef Sorett

Type

Label

Spirit in the dark, a religious history of racial aesthetics, Josef Sorett

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Spirit in the dark

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

967257192

Responsibility statement

Josef Sorett

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

a religious history of racial aesthetics

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.--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

specialized

Creator