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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... song, and saying—of collective and individual worldly endurance, success, and divine salvation in African American culture. However, with regard to faithful vision, the African worldview of the shadowy 2 faithful vision.
... song reminds him of church meetings from his past (453). He also implies that there is something he is missing, though. There is a power in the song that goes beyond the “slave-borne words; it was as though he'd changed the emotion ...
... song of hope and exaltation” (134). The song engenders a brief glimpse of genuine expectation and joy that uplifts and that the narrator observes but does not understand. Yet the narrator does not totally fail to sense the deeper truth ...
... song precede singing the blues and consequently expressing himself intensely and honestly (66). Also a singer in the school chapel of “what the officials called 'primitive spirituals'” (47), Trueblood has appealed to the preacher who ...
... song symbolizes faithful vision at the beginning of the episode conceptualizing ambivalent freedom (9–12), and the secularized sermon preached from the “lower level” (9) evokes the ambiguity of blackness. The old slave woman exhorts the ...
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 |