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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... preacher tells him in his jail cell. Bigger killed this story and his hope because “to those who wanted to kill him ... preacher, and the “word become[s] flesh” (268) only when Jan shows sympathy for him. This makes sense in the text ...
... preacher's view is not representative of the complex African American awareness that encompasses all that human rationality can and then looks beyond that to faith; the preacher's belief has none of the depth of traditional African ...
... preacher Barbee creating a powerful vision that enthralls the audience, particularly the white trustees, and then falling to the floor shows that his sermon is a negative example of ritual expression. However, shortly after Barbee falls ...
... preacher who rejects him, and thinks that his attempt to pray fails. But his failed prayer is ironically part of a process that is both secular and spiritual. The attempted prayer leads to “some kinda church song” which becomes blues ...
... preacher's secular phrasings in sermonic rhythms (9–10). Blackness is real although ambiguous and ambivalent, however, and the questions associated with black existence are urgent though unanswerable. Blackness can be expressed although ...
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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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