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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... reveal that most writers with a significant opus explore the Bible as a dominant part of some text. Yet no study of African American fiction deeply examines how religious tradition based on faith and centrally bound in the Bible ...
... reveals. However, it is not popular 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 ...
... revealed throughout the Bible. Verse 26 says, “And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.” From one possible position, the ...
... perspective may be conflicted and ironic. In other cases, texts imply such vision because they reveal and do not negate the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural, leaving open the possibility that faith in power 4 faithful vision.
... reveal the writers' ability to reject their characters' cultural belief. The novels in this study, most of which are canonical and postmodern, and were written in the last fifty or so years, reveal that the African American fictional ...
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 |