Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American FictionLSU Press, 2006 - Всего страниц: 264 "This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature |
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... created by the horror of the past of slavery and racism. The core of this past is, as Toni Morrison's novelBeloved (1987) calls it, “unspeakable thoughts, unspoken” (198–99). It is atrocity, pain, and suffering seared indelibly on the ...
... create a substantive void, even in canonical works. This void sometimes exists in the texts of earlier twentieth-century African American writers working in the realist or naturalist mode or trying to position themselves as modernists ...
... create one of the best presentations of African American faithful vision before the contemporary works dealt with here. His work is a significant forerunner of the later treatments that I investigate. Charles Chesnutt published the ...
... created a new world for himself, and for that he was to die” (264). It is true that white people who hate him refuse to see Bigger's humanity, and this generates a hard existence for him and black people generally. Yet the tradition of ...
... created the physical things of the world and thereby revealed their power; the capacity of men to assert their will and make things be is important. Bigger gleans from Max's words that he should accept his act of murder as meaningful ...
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03 Critiquing Christian Belief | 77 |
04 Rejecting God and Redefining Faith | 118 |
05 Reshaping and Radicalizing Faith | 156 |
Fiction Life and Faitful Vision | 197 |
Notes | 205 |
Bibliography | 233 |
Index | 245 |
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