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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... gives it a clearer connection to the Bible than the titles of Go Tell It on the Mountain and Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits (1989), which are about the African American Christian faithful vision that I analyze in chapter 2. Let ...
... 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 introduction.
... of reality so that writers can be more innovative formally and thematically. It also gives writers access to the complex imaginative dimensions of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in African American culture 11 introduction.
... gives serious credence to Christianity and hoodoo as aspects of the culture in the African American community. InJubilee (1966), Margaret Walker recreates the history of African Americans from slavery to Reconstruction through the ...
... give the reader the feeling of the spirit within the church, but the overall portrayal of the scene makes it an easily imagined reality. The skilled ritual recital of earthly problems that calls on God evokes a 25 african american ...
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 |