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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... complex human beings without the agency of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural that subverted the plans of people with power. Faithful vision also emphasizes a daily individual struggle related to the group experience, just as the ...
... Visitation of Spirits. It is not possible to separate hoodoo from its Christian host in the ensuing explanation of faithful vision in this deceptively complex novel. Let the Lion Eat Straw is partly a celebration of 7 introduction.
... of reality so that writers can be more innovative formally and thematically. It also gives writers access to the complex imaginative dimensions of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in African American culture 11 introduction.
... complex, does not work in a balanced comparison to Mumbo Jumbo. Also, like Mumbo Jumbo and unlike Mama Day, the entire narrative of Louisiana is a specific, unambiguous avowal of hoodoo, which it makes clear is not a peripheral occult ...
... complex portrayals of black culture from W. E. B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk (1903) or the literary works and pronouncements of the Harlem Renaissance. In this context, his superficial portrayals of black people and culture are ...
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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