Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American FictionLSU Press, 2006 - 264 páginas "This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature |
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... Tell It on the Mountain (1953) and how many others just ignore it and write about different aspects of the text.1 Perhaps not all black writers incorporate the Bible in some important way into their fiction, following the cultural ...
... 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 from the mouth of God nothing can turn it back” (71) ...
... Tell It on the Mountain and Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits (1989), which are about the African American Christian faithful vision that I analyze in chapter 2. Let the Lion Eat Straw anticipates the hybrid forms of the sacred ...
... tell Abeba's husband Daniel if she has more children (100–101). This leads to Abeba informing Daniel herself and his subsequent mental breakdown and lifelong psychological instability (102–4). Angela has taken Abeba to a spiritualist ...
... Tell It on the Mountain John is the promised great son that his stepfather Gabriel does not want, yet he nevertheless fulfills God's promise in spite of what Gabriel does; similarly, despite her intentions, Angela's actions contribute ...
Contenido
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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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