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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... thing possible, in the final analysis, in the context of the African cultural background and black American culture and history. Particularly in light of a history of oppression, only faith can contain the unfathomable evil of the past ...
... things that she does to her daughter. She inexplicably will not intervene when Abeba tells her that her uncle is raping her at age fifteen (65–66), keeps the knowledge until Abeba is married and pregnant with her first child, and then ...
... things, the role of the biblical and religious tradition and the concept of God as they are “written” into black culture and thus influence the narrative about the culture. Each novel shows a different textual approach to portraying the ...
... things of the world and thereby revealed their power; the capacity of men to assert their will and make things be is important. Bigger gleans from Max's words that he should accept his act of murder as meaningful and die because the ...
... thing real is his act that leads to his own destruction. Obviously, if faith in the African American tradition did not empower black people to overcome spiritually the impositions of white people, then they would collectively be as ...
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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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