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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... 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 evil” (18) in the broad historical scope of black experience ...
... later chapters of novels that are postmodern in narrative technique or according to narrative theory implied or stated in the text itself. Generally speaking, the postmodern is a practical mode to use in writing about the sacred ...
... later treatments that I investigate. Charles Chesnutt published the stories of The Conjure Woman (1899) much earlier, but Cane, which also has suggestions and implications of hoodoo, is a more substantive portrayal of African American ...
... later chapters. To show the predominant background to the post-1970s novels, this chapter briefly surveys novels that treat the biblical and Christian in the prevailing contexts of naturalism, realism, and modernism. Naturalism, realism ...
... later. The blind preacher Barbee creating a powerful vision that enthralls the audience, particularly the white trustees, and then falling to the floor shows that his sermon is a negative example of ritual expression. However, shortly ...
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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