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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... evil purpose, and intended perpetuity. The result is that it exists minimally in language and profoundly in a region of feeling beneath language, which is where the “unspeakable thoughts, unspoken” reside in Beloved. African American ...
... evil” (18) in the broad historical scope of black experience and in individuals' attempts to fulfill their needs. Black writers before 1937 seldom deny the existence or importance of God: “It is tremendously revealing to note that Negro ...
... evil, superstitious belief. In the novels that I treat, faithful vision is a substantive 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 ...
... 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 generally are a part ...
... evil and the efficacy of the acts of individuals whose faithful beliefincorporates evil; the breadth and inclusiveness of faithful vision is characteristic of hoodoo's connection to Christianity.7 Let the Lion Eat Straw depicts Abeba's ...
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 |