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| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| Introduction: "Would He Be to Us a God of Justice?" | p. 1 |
| "In My Flesh Shall I See God": Ritual Violence, Racial Redemption, and Countée Cullen's "The Black Christ" | p. 31 |
| "Wrastl' On Jacob": Richard Wright and the Trope of the Mourner's Bench | p. 53 |
| "A Loveless, Barren, Hopeless Western Marriage": Spiritual Infidelity in the Fiction of Nella Larsen and Alice Walker | p. 77 |
| "There Is No Way Not to Suffer": Evil Ruptures and Improvisations of Joy in "Sonny's Blues" and "The Sky Is Gray" | p. 109 |
| "But God Is Not a Mystery. We Are.": Toni Morrison and the Problem of Paradise | p. 147 |
| Conclusion: "Something as Inexplicable as Water" | p. 183 |
| Notes | p. 189 |
| Bibliography | p. 203 |
| Index | p. 217 |
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