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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... traditions that engender faith are arguably the most important cultural feature to African Americans, and therefore also ... tradition as complexly as possible. Perhaps critics of African American fiction are too insulated and concerned ...
... tradition, writers also construct alternative theological, spiritual, and supernatural perspectives against oppression and hardship based on the voodoo or hoodoo religion.3 These narratives engage Christianity in relationships of ...
... tradition, and also reveals that writers sometimes evolve toward more substantive depictions of black tradition in which faithful vision is important. A survey of eight works demonstrates, among other important points, how the novels ...
... traditional Christian faith to untraditional hoodoo faith. Go Tell It on the Mountain and A Visitation of Spirits typify ... tradition are sometimes critically ironic, but just as often the narratives leave open the way for acceptance of ...
... 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 sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in a ...
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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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