Langston's Salvation : : American Religion and the Bard of Harlem / / Wallace D. Best.
Winner of the 2018 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Textual Studies, presented by the American Academy of Religion 2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice MagazineA new perspective on the role of religion in the work of Langston HughesLangston's Salvation offers a fasci...
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Best, Wallace D., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Langston's Salvation : American Religion and the Bard of Harlem / Wallace D. Best. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource : 7 black and white illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Looking for Langston -- 1. New territory for new Negroes -- 2. Poems of a religious nature -- 3. “concerning ‘goodbye Christ’” -- 4. My gospel year -- 5. Christmas in black -- Conclusion. Do nothing till you hear from me -- Notes -- Index -- About the author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Winner of the 2018 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Textual Studies, presented by the American Academy of Religion 2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice MagazineA new perspective on the role of religion in the work of Langston HughesLangston's Salvation offers a fascinating exploration into the religious thought of Langston Hughes. Known for his poetry, plays, and social activism, the importance of religion in Hughes’ work has historically been ignored or dismissed. This book puts this aspect of Hughes work front and center, placing it into the wider context of twentieth-century American and African American religious cultures. Best brings to life the religious orientation of Hughes work, illuminating how this powerful figure helped to expand the definition of African American religion during this time. Best argues that contrary to popular perception, Hughes was neither an avowed atheist nor unconcerned with religious matters. He demonstrates that Hughes’ religious writing helps to situate him and other black writers as important participants in a broader national discussion about race and religion in America. Through a rigorous analysis that includes attention to Hughes’s unpublished religious poems, Langston’s Salvation reveals new insights into Hughes’s body of work, and demonstrates that while Hughes is seen as one of the most important voices of the Harlem Renaissance, his writing also needs to be understood within the context of twentieth-century American religious liberalism and of the larger modernist movement. Combining historical and literary analyses with biographical explorations of Langston Hughes as a writer and individual, Langston’s Salvation opens a space to read Langston Hughes’ writing religiously, in order to fully understand the writer and the world he inhabited. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) RELIGION / History. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110728972 print 9781479834891 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479864799.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479864799 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479864799/original |
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