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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... the realization of a higher humanity; the spiritual continually interacts with the secular and profane in a process that symbolizes American democratic creative possibilities. In their 31 african american faithful belief.
... possibilities. In their Juneteenth sermon, the main characters Hickman and Bliss rhetorically ask if the African American condition is an act of man or an act of God and tell the congregation that it was an “act of God . . . through ...
... possibilities that take him far from an African American earthly ideal that is almost impossible for “white” people. The white-looking Bliss's racial ambiguity stands for the true ambiguity of American race, but he becomes fascinated ...
... possibility that Esther's faith has sustained her and that her faithfulness will turn out to be the foundation of Cecil's refuge. Esther thinks that Cecil's cruel abandonment of her is an act of God that reveals his grace in her time of ...
... possibility of death and resurrection” (178–79). But the plan never becomes more than a grotesque fantasy shared by the four conspirators; the novel ends with an image of death amid modernist frustration and chaos (263–64). The plan ...
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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