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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... Faith The Diasporic Vision and Practice of Hoodoo conclusion · 197 Fiction, Life, and Faithful Vision Final Thoughts on Its Overall Portrayal and Relevance notes · 205 bibliography · 233 index · 245 faithful vision Contents.
... practice to apply academic discourses to investigate the aspects of black novels that I analyze in this study. I would argue that many—perhaps most—African Americans have faith in the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural because belief ...
... practice from Africa throughout the diaspora. For me, conjure is synonymous with voodoo and hoodoo.) Smith states that “the sacred text of Western culture, the Bible, comes to view as a magic formulary for African Americans; a book of ...
... practices with EuroChristian sources and traditions” (3–4). Biblical belief becomes transformed to a sustaining faithful ... practice as to be inseparable from it. Certainly in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century black ...
... 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. The epigraph is ...
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 |