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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... wants to defeat this prophecy that does not fit her plan for her daughter to go to Juilliard and be a great musician. This reasoning does not explain why she lets her daughter be raped approximately fifty times, however (102–3). Angela ...
... want, yet he nevertheless fulfills God's promise in spite of what Gabriel does; similarly, despite her intentions, Angela's actions contribute to Abeba's divinely planned life. The novel's view (which is ultimately its own faithful ...
... wants to feel something beyond his own black body, though, and in this scene, he looks toward the white man for faith. Bigger rejects the Christian view as projected by the black preacher, and the “word become[s] flesh” (268) only when ...
... . Bigger gleans from Max's words that he should accept his act of murder as meaningful and die because the murder is what life made him feel and murder is what it made him want to do. Bigger's 21 african american faithful belief.
... want to do. Bigger's experience has so degraded him that he cannot possibly relate to feeling what white men feel and having their power; the only thing real is his act that leads to his own destruction. Obviously, if faith in the ...
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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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