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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... belief; its characters verbally reject hoodoo at the same time that they practice and avow it on a deeper psychic level. However, the novel compares well to Let the Lion Eat Straw as a text in which the characters combine Christianity ...
... belief, parody and subversion of it, and apparent affirmation of hoodoo faithful vision. The characters' beliefs within the texts range from traditional Christian faith to untraditional hoodoo faith. Go Tell It on the Mountain and A ...
... belief.Beloved's approach to Christianity and particularly the Bible is a subtle, powerful parody unlike any other in African American fiction. The main target of the parody is the text of the Bible itself rather the belief of the ...
... belief. This is a different exposition of faithful vision that is adversarial and yet at the same time reflective of ... beliefs and practices that transcend national boundaries and typify the African American. Mumbo Jumbo is an African ...
... belief than Chesnutt's. Zora Neale Hurston'sJonah's Gourd Vine (1934) is another notable early work. Besides using the dominant symbol of the story of Jonah in its title, the novel thematically parallels the allegory of the biblical ...
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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Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in ... James W. Coleman Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
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Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in ... James W. Coleman Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |