Spirit in the Dark
Subtitle: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 01, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780199844937
Description: While many of the most significant black intellectual movements of the second half of the twentieth century have been perceived as secular, Josef Sorett demonstrates in this book that religion was actually a fertile, fluid and formidable force within these movements. Spirit in the Dark examines how African American literary visions were animated and organized by religion and spirituality, from the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s to the Black Arts movement of the 1960s.
Notes: Source title: Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics