Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American FictionLSU Press, 2006 - 264 pages "This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature |
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... American Culture and Fiction chapter 1 · 16 African American Faithful Belief Imposing Social Determinism, Naturalism, and Modernism chapter 2 · 43 The Centrality of Religious Faith Communal Acceptance, Textual Ambiguity, and Paradox ...
... American Culture and Fiction religious and biblical traditions that engender faith are arguably the most important cultural feature to African Americans, and therefore also to African American writers who write about black culture ...
... Americans have faith in the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural because belief is the only thing possible, in the final analysis, in the context of the African cultural background and black American culture and history. Particularly in ...
... American culture. As my analysis shows, voodoo “faith” has potentially innumerable connections to the biblical and is inseparable from it, in spite of voodoo's relative obfuscation. The African American imagination is conceived in the ...
... American imaginative projection is concrete and abstract. It is outwardly ... culture it is the belief in African-derived gods and spirits that relate ... culture, most black writers at some time substantively portray African American ...
Contents
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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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Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in ... James W. Coleman No preview available - 2009 |