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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... influence and a relationship with the Bible and the associated Judeo-Christian ethic. Traditionally, an appropriated story of faith is more substantively influential than biblical moral statute. Faith overarches the philosophical ...
... influences. Sometimes novels directly or indirectly explore the agency of God in life, but African American women writers often write in opposition to the patriarchal macrocosmic Christian perspective of God and locate the sacred and ...
... influence unconsciously while being consciously Christian and implicitly and explicitly rejecting voodoo/hoodoo as evil, superstitious belief. In the novels that I treat, faithful vision is a substantive aspect of African American life ...
... influenced agency of the “half Indian, half African” Mamma Habblesham (5) and the clairvoyant resources of her evil-spirited mother Angela strongly affect the life of Abeba, the main character. The dominant perspective grafts the ...
... influenced by materialism contributes to Abeba's meaningful life, her mother's vindictiveness, abusiveness, and apparently evil intentions notwithstanding. As the novel ends after the forty-five-year-old Abeba's death from cancer, at ...
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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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