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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... characters' or the black community's vision rather than the writer's or the text's, and the text's own critical perspective may be conflicted and ironic. In other cases, texts imply such vision because they reveal and do not negate the ...
... characters' cultural belief. The novels in this study, most of which are canonical and postmodern, and were written in the last fifty or so years, reveal that the African American fictional tradition has turned back to affirming ...
... characters' good-and-evil-related hoodoo practices and rituals. The Bible projects a substantive 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 ...
... characters and also as affirmed by the text. Let the Lion Eat Straw suggests the overall syncretism of African American faithful belief in the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural that entails personal, individual struggle and coping ...
... 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 in which the characters combine Christianity and hoodoo in ...
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 |