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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... [killed] in the ocean” during the Middle Passage (161). African Americans use different aspects of faithful vision to strive and struggle. Through faith they accept and give thanks for what is good, and remember and accept evil and give ...
... 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 perspective and an interesting ...
... 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 narrative about the culture. Each ...
... kills Fannie's new husband and saves him from doing it, and he loudly thanks God (147). The destruction of the Hamiltons is almost complete, though, because they are “powerless against some Will [of the gods] infinitely stronger than ...
... killed Mary Dalton, Bigger's first “murder” had been the story of creation and what follows, which the preacher tells him in his jail cell. Bigger killed this story and his hope because “to those who wanted to kill him he was not human ...
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 |