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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... expression of American humanity. Thinking about oppression historically, black people look at the range of human possibility and explanation and what is beyond. The African American past shows the intentions of white people with power ...
... expression before midcentury portray a traditional biblical God who has relevance in the social life of black people ... expressions of God ... The Negro is not interested in any fine theological or philosophical discussions about God ...
... expression, there is a pattern that is the precursor to the later in-depth treatment of faithful vision. God is a practical part of black people's everyday lives. He reveals himself in this world in a “moral struggle against sin and ...
... expression of faithful vision that is hoodoo.Mama Day (1988) has a more ambiguous system of belief; its characters verbally reject hoodoo at the same time that they practice and avow it on a deeper psychic level. However, the novel ...
... expression of the tradition's own cultural voice in the past and in the evolving present. If the text itself did not mention the characters' faith, then the distortion of faithful vision's potential and the black cultural ethos ...
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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