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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... light of a history of oppression, only faith can contain the unfathomable evil of the past and present and project future deliverance from it. InGo Tell It on the Mountain, the black slave woman Rachel is illiterate, but she knows the ...
... Light(enment) of the world in John 1–14. Black people do not become saints but only sinners who retain great human potential as long as they stay in touch with the creative ritual of the Word and all that it entails to humble themselves ...
... light on his toes and balls of feet Tiny danced. In his world, in that moment he lived for, when the tremendous weight of his soft, spreading flesh would be cast off, and somewhere like a leafor a gust of music he would be lifted by the ...
... light of everything, including oppression; in The Lynchers, there is a conspicuous lack of the traditional God in the black imagination. Littleman ironically reveals this in conceptualizing the black god: “A god is created when the will ...
... light Tommy's ambivalent faith at the same time that it draws him to substantive belief beyond his being. In the funeral parlor at his grandfather's funeral, Tommy tries to close his eyes and pray, and can only think of old age and ...
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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