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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... 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, there are to be found only a few ...
... existence for him and black people generally. Yet the tradition of faithful vision in African American culture shows that reality is more than the hard existence created by white people at any particular time, and even the sum of a ...
... existence inseparable from the secular world. In the prologue, the narrator relates events that have already happened, bringing him to his conclusions about modernist reality and black life and the centrality of religious rituals in ...
... existence of African American life itself is obviously good, and the poverty, continued oppression, and constant danger, as represented in their plunge into the riot, are bad. Everything considered, black people are here, and they ...
... existence are urgent though unanswerable. Blackness can be expressed although it cannot be defined, and on the deepest levels that the narrator can access, the folk sermon and the spiritual are keys to and beginning points of this ...
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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