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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... present and project future deliverance from it. InGo Tell It on the Mountain, the black slave woman Rachel is illiterate, but she knows the story of God's liberation of his people in the Bible. She says, “When the Word has gone forth ...
... presents the Old Testament story of God's plan that allows human perfidy, oppression, and suffering; the New Testament story of Christ and the doctrine of saving grace; and prescriptions of moral law. In Romans 9:13-26 of the King James ...
... present.5 Ellease Southerland's novel Let the Lion Eat Straw (1979) affirms faith in the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural asthe central intention and theme of its narrative and the black communities that it depicts; it represents ...
... present an engaging overall textual perspective and an interesting cultural portrayal of faithful vision among African American characters. Textual perspectives include ironic stances toward and affirmation of Christian belief, parody ...
... , but both pose female spirituality as an alternative to that tradition. Walker's text presents a uniquely direct attack on God and Christianity, and also ironically formulates a counternarrative to the dominant one in 12 faithful vision.
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 |