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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... never envision any, his and Dunbar's novels are remarkably alike in worldview; The Sport of the Gods is an incidental thematic predecessor ofNative Son's deadend faithlessness if not a directly influentialliterary ancestor.The Sport of ...
... never be. But his mother believed; it was her last hope; it was what had kept her going through the years” (278). The power of belief that supports his mother means nothing to him; he only responds to her apparently substanceless plea ...
... never fully conscious of the truth about either African American or modernist reality until the end, but a section from chapter 23 (495–98) dealing with the reverend Rinehart is a starting point. The narrator's relatively high level of ...
... never fully understands the text's larger implications about black culture. Overall, the narrator negatively judges black culture, but the text makes no final judgment. Faithful vision is an important part of black cultural tradition ...
... never resolves the contradictions that produce the old woman's ambivalence and realizes that his experience has made him ambivalent too. And blackness itself is a text of ambiguity, as articulated in the preacher's secular phrasings in ...
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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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