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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... and Radicalizing Faith The Diasporic Vision and Practice of Hoodoo conclusion · 197 Fiction, Life, and Faithful Vision Final Thoughts on Its Overall Portrayal and Relevance notes · 205 bibliography · 233 index · 245 faithful vision ...
... portray African American faithful vision and concomitant African and Western religiocosmic influences. Sometimes novels directly or indirectly explore the agency of God in life, but African American women writers often write in ...
... portray a traditional biblical God who has relevance in the social life of black people. Mays traces the conceptions of God in “mass” literature—spirituals, sermons, prayers, and Sunday school literature—and “classical” literature—poems ...
... portrayal and artistic exploration. Chapter 1 shows how the three literary movements constrained the portrayal of cultural tradition, and also reveals that writers sometimes evolve toward more substantive depictions of black tradition ...
... portrayal of faithful vision among African American characters. Textual perspectives include ironic stances toward and affirmation of Christian belief, parody and subversion of it, and apparent affirmation of hoodoo faithful vision. The ...
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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