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Faithful vision : treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction

"This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature."--American LiteratureIn Faithful Vision, James W. Coleman places under his critical lens a wide array of African American novels written during the last half of the twentieth century. In doing so, he demonstrates that religious vision not only informs black literature but also serves as a foundation for black culture generally. The Judeo-Christian tradition, according to Coleman, is the primary component of the African American spiritual perspective, though its syncre
eBook, English, ©2006
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, ©2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (252 pages).
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African American faithful belief : imposing social determinism, naturalism, and modernism
The centrality of religious faith : communal acceptance, textual ambiguity, and paradox
Critiquing Christian belief : the text as prophecy of different ways of seeing salvation
Rejecting God and redefining faith : portrayals of Black women's spirituality
Reshaping and radicalizing faith : the diasporic vision and practice of hoodoo
Conclusion : fiction, life, and faithful vision : final thoughts on its overall portrayal and relevance
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