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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... death Mamma is a spiritual, mystic presence that balances Angela's meanness and potential evil. Angela's distinctly evil acts generated partly by hoodoo supernatural powers are necessary to Abeba's divinely planned life. Angela combines ...
... death from cancer, at the funeral Angela says with a “loud voice ... 'sleep on. Sleep on'”; Mamma “said ever so quietly, 'Hush your mouth'” (180). The voices of Mamma and Angela symbolize the broadness of hoodoo-motivated faithful ...
... death are all the meaning that he can find. African American folkways offer nothing important to Bigger; black life is solely a product of degrading naturalistic forces, including slavery that lasted three centuries (360), which are ...
... death of his mother on Easter Sunday (129–30) just after Eddie arrives home trying to resurrect his own dope-plagued life drives him to the black church once more, but again he cannot access its rhythms for sustenance (138–41). In his ...
... death years later. However, the text's attention to detail in describing Tiny's compelling feat suggests its power and potential despite Eddie's detachment and the novel's final emphasis on solutions grounded in the human connection ...
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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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