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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... past and present and project future deliverance from it. InGo Tell It on the Mountain, the black slave woman Rachel is illiterate, but she knows the story of God's liberation of his people in the Bible. She says, “When the Word has gone ...
... 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 collective racial being by its ...
... past and ambience onto the biblical and weaves it together with the supernatural that is generally associated with Africa and voodoo and the natural force of the hoodoo-infused environment of the American South, accessed primarily by ...
... past.8 Finally, over the last four decades, Ernest Gaines's novels broadly chronicle African American life and, in the process, the centrality of Christianity in the cultural tradition. chapter 1 African American Faithful Belief ...
... past and in the evolving present. If the text itself did not mention the characters' faith, then the distortion of faithful vision's potential and the black cultural ethos generally would not be as explicit, but it would still be ...
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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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