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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... potentially innumerable connections to the biblical and is inseparable from it, in spite of voodoo's relative obfuscation. The African American imagination is conceived in the individual struggle and the historical travail created by ...
... potential evil. Angela's distinctly evil acts generated partly by hoodoo supernatural powers are necessary to Abeba's divinely planned life. Angela combines Christian belief grounded in churchgoing, hoodoo divination, and ideals of ...
... potential of people to struggle against the oppressive social and political realities of black life, and although the texts themselves often do not affirm it, they show the creative potential and effect of faithful vision in some aspect ...
... potential and the black cultural ethos generally would not be as explicit, but it would still be implicit. Native Son's main character Bigger Thomas is set apart from the mass by an accidental murder, but he very much represents its ...
... potential effective integration of them. The novel's final words on faith are the “white” view of Max, which essentially shows potential in the actions of white men and, paradoxically, the basically hopeless vision of Bigger. Both ...
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 |