TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moore,Marlon Rachquel
TI  - In the life and in the spirit: homoerotic spirituality in African American literature 
SN  - 9781438454092
AV  - PS153.N5 M663 2014eb
U1  - 810.9/896073 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Homosexuality in literature
KW  - Spirituality in literature
KW  - Christianity in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Univeristy of Florida; Includes bibliographical references and index; Oward a genealogy of black queer spirituality. Gay Christianity -- Gay Christian narrative: Langston Hughes, "blessed assurance" -- Sacred sensuality: Just above my head -- Philosophies of the spirit. Soul talk & sermonic seduction: The color purple; Say Jesus, and Come to me -- Neo-spirit narrative: "in the life" -- Nontheist cosmologies. Humanist zealotry: Parable of the sower; Parable of the talents -- Reciprocity as spiritual ethos: The Gilda stories -- Closing thoughts
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ER  -