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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... John is the promised great son that his stepfather Gabriel does not 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 ...
... John Edgar Wideman's A Glance Away (1967), Hurry Home (1970), The Lynchers (1973), and Hiding Place (1981). In chapters 2 through 5, I analyze James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain and Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits, Toni ...
... John Edgar Wideman'sThe Cattle Killing (1996), Alice Walker's The Color Purple (1982) and Gloria Naylor'sMama Day, and Erna Brodber's Louisiana and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo (1972). These novels present an engaging overall textual ...
... John Edgar Wideman'sThe Cattle Killing are postmodern novels that explore, among other 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 ...
... John Edgar Wideman move away from these literary creeds toward artistic forms and thematic approaches that foreground the African American ethos deeply set in faithful vision. The evolution of Wideman's work is the best example of an ...
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 |