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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... figures who look like her, and to pursue a career in movie making, a magic which represents white power.8 Juneteenth does not specify how, but Bliss becomes a “white” senator who uses the Word to denigrate black people and becomes ...
... figure alienated from family and psychologically traumatized, with the white professor Robert Thurley, a homosexual modernist figure pursuing spiritual renewal through intellectual analysis and social adaptation in the manner of T. S. ...
... figures and heroes of street life, and his own sexual prowess and destructive, shameful behavior are all part of the story that Tommy tells in an attempt to define, understand, and thereby control his life. But he also includes in the ...
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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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