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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... possibility and explanation and what is beyond. The African American past shows the intentions of white people with power to destroy the humanity of powerless blacks through the process of making them chattel. From this perspective ...
... critical perspective may be conflicted and ironic. In other cases, texts imply such vision because they reveal and do not negate the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural, leaving open the possibility that faith in power 4 faithful vision.
... possibility that faith in power beyond the mundane and the rational mind is all that there can be. Reflecting black cultural need and investment from a more controversial perspective related to African tradition, writers also construct ...
... possibility that the tradition and its religion have meaning for African Americans, particularly those in the rural South whereCane is set. AlthoughCane has a distanced perspective that does not penetrate as deeply as it could into the ...
... possibility of his being sub-human and feels constrained, therefore, to battle for his humanity according to those criteria bequeathed him at his birth” (22). Ironically, the first black novel to have such a large audience and effect ...
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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