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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... clear individual and group awareness of this interplay, but it is unclear to what extent individuals and communities ... clearly foregrounds religion and related biblical textuality. If anything, the title of the novel gives it a clearer ...
... clear that faithful vision is essential to African American culture and to many black texts, and its negation or effacement can create a substantive void, even in canonical works. This void sometimes exists in the texts of earlier ...
... clearly to the African American experience of oppression. It sounds like African American belief is ultimately influenced by hoodoo, but the text does not state this, leaving the final classification ambiguous.Cattle Killing is very ...
... clear is not a peripheral occult practice. It is a serious African American religion based in faithful vision that is similar to the Christian in Louisiana and dissimilar but equally strong inMumboJumbo. Brodber's and Reed's novels ...
... clear in Hiding Place (1981). Ellison's fiction also seems to develop similarly from the 1950s to the 1990s. Using John F. Callahan's edited text of Juneteenth (1999), one can only speculate on Ellison's direction after the highly ...
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 |