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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... Belief Imposing Social Determinism, Naturalism, and Modernism chapter 2 · 43 The Centrality of Religious Faith Communal Acceptance, Textual Ambiguity, and Paradox chapter 3 · 77 Critiquing Christian Belief The Text as Prophecy of ...
... belief is the only thing possible, in the final analysis, in the context of the African cultural background and black American culture and history. Particularly in light of a history of oppression, only faith can contain the ...
... belief in African-derived gods and spirits that relate syncretically to Christianity and to oppression and life in similar direct and indirect ways. Stated differently, faithful vision is a belief in sacred, spiritual, and supernatural ...
... belief and practice from Africa throughout the diaspora. For me, conjure is synonymous with voodoo and hoodoo.) Smith states that “the sacred text of Western culture, the Bible, comes to view as a magic formulary for African Americans ...
... belief becomes transformed to a sustaining faithful vision that is as much constituted by the magic and ritual of voodoo/hoodoo inspired by African culture as it is by the Christian. Smith's analysis demonstrates that voodoo/hoodoo is ...
Contenido
1 | |
16 | |
43 | |
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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