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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... treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century african american fiction james w. coleman louisiana state university press baton rouge Published by Louisiana State University Press Copyright © 2005 by.
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... Louisiana (1994) has a different but similarly strong expression of faithful vision that is hoodoo.Mama Day (1988) has a more ambiguous system of belief; its characters verbally reject hoodoo at the same time that they practice and avow ...
... Louisiana and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo (1972). These novels present an engaging overall textual perspective and an interesting cultural portrayal of faithful vision among African American characters. Textual perspectives include ...
... Louisiana andMumbo Jumbo. Brodber's Louisiana and Reed's Mumbo Jumbo define African American hoodoo in terms of its conflation with the diasporan. Most considerMumbo Jumbo to be an African American novel because Reed was born in America ...
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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