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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... writers incorporate the Bible in some important way into their fiction, following the cultural pattern in which black people make it an integral part of life communally and individually, but black novels reveal that most writers with a ...
... writers at some time substantively portray African American faithful vision and concomitant African and Western religiocosmic influences. Sometimes novels directly or indirectly explore the agency of God in life, but African American ...
... writers in the cultural tradition that they depict, producing a variety of critical and adversarial treatments that seldom reveal the writers' ability to reject their characters' cultural belief. The novels in this study, most of which ...
... writers before 1937 seldom deny the existence or importance of God: “It is tremendously revealing to note that Negro 'classical' writers have, for the most part, adhered rather closely to the orthodox, traditional views of God. In fact ...
... writers working in the realist or naturalist mode or trying to position themselves as modernists. Realism, naturalism, and modernism are obviously different, but each limited writers' exploration of the sacred, spiritual, and ...
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 |