The Negro's God as reflected in his literature.
By: With a new preface by Vincent Harding
Series: Studies in American Negro life
Publisher: Atheneum
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Religion; God in literature
Notes: First published 1938
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- Ideas of God in the literature of the Negro masses -- Ideas of God in “classical” literature 1760-1865 -- Ideas of God in “classical” literature 1865-1914 -- Other-worldly “classical” literature (after 1914) -- The impartiality of God and the unity of mankind -- Miscellaneous ideas of God in “classical” Negro literature 1914-1937 -- Ideas of God involving frustration, doubt, God’s impotence, and his non-existence -- Summation.