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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... aspects of black novels that I analyze in this study. I would argue that many—perhaps most—African Americans have faith in the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural because belief is the only thing possible, in the final analysis, in the ...
... aspect of the culture that earlier writers did not have the freedom and formal resources to display to the extent that contemporary writers can. Obviously, African American literature has changed a lot since 1937. However, more recent ...
... aspect of African American life in instances where people are aware as well as unaware of voodoo/hoodoo, with it always being possible that some black communities could be unaffected. A syncretism with the biblical and Christian, or an ...
... aspect of the novel's faith in God's benevolent but inscrutable plan, of which the main character's life and the experience of black people generally are a part. The epigraph is from Isaiah 11:6–7: “The wolf also shall dwell with the ...
... 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 praise for its transcendence. My analysis of Let the Lion Eat Straw reveals the 9 ...
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 |