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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... Mama Day (1988) has a more ambiguous system of belief; its characters verbally reject hoodoo at the same time that they practice and avow it on a deeper psychic level. However, the novel compares well to Let the Lion Eat Straw as a text ...
... Mama Day from the perspective of telling a story that is passed down in words and is also subconscious myth. Thus both fall into the postmodern pattern that allows writers to innovate and to delineate the complexity of the African ...
... Mama Day, the entire narrative of Louisiana is a specific, unambiguous avowal of hoodoo, which it makes clear is not a peripheral occult practice. It is a serious African American religion based in faithful vision that is similar to the ...
... Mama Day, MumboJumbo, andLouisiana highlight how much voodoo/ hoodoo practice and belief have inflected and, in the last two novels, overridden African American Christianity. Considered as a whole, these texts and the others that I ...
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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 |