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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... connections to the biblical and is inseparable from it, in spite of voodoo's relative obfuscation. The African American imagination is conceived in the individual struggle and the historical travail created by the horror of the past of ...
... connected to the racial. Yet in voodoo/hoodoo culture it is 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 ...
... connection to the Bible than the titles of Go 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 ...
... connection to Christianity.7 Let the Lion Eat Straw depicts Abeba's life in which evil perpetrated against her by someone who lives by faith is a significant factor, and concludes that “God has plans which mortals don't understand. He ...
... connection with this, Jean Toomer'sCane (1923) is an early work that deserves mention. In his unclassifiable thematic and formal medley, the racially ambiguous and undetermined Toomer, who was not committed to African American culture ...
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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