Peter Powers brings together critical sophistication in both theology and cultural history, while also demonstrating superior skills at literary analysis. There are few books that address the role of religion in American fiction, let alone ethnic American fiction. None do so in so profoundly revisionary a way as this. Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr., University of Massachusetts Amherst In Recalling Religions, Peter Kerry Powers demonstrates the pervasive influence of religion in the literature produced by ethnic women writers in late-twentieth-century America. Through close readings of works by...
Peter Powers brings together critical sophistication in both theology and cultural history, while also demonstrating superior skills at literary analy...
Surprisingly few critics have focused on the ways in which religious contexts shaped the works of New Negro writers and artists of the Hrlem Renaissance. In Goodbye Christ? Peter Kerry Powers fills this scholarly void, exploring how the intersection of race, religion, and gender impacted the rhetoric and imagination of prominent African American writers of the early twentieth century.
Surprisingly few critics have focused on the ways in which religious contexts shaped the works of New Negro writers and artists of the Hrlem Renaissan...
