Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American FictionLSU Press, 2006 - 264 עמודים "This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 55
... context of the African cultural background and black American culture and history. Particularly in light of a history of oppression, only faith can contain the unfathomable evil of the past and present and project future deliverance ...
... context, there are latent and minor implications of hoodoo in several texts that I note in the summation. This analysis is mostly about African American postmodern novels since 1970 when African American writers have had the wherewithal ...
... contexts of naturalism, realism, and modernism. Naturalism, realism, and modernism are literary worldviews that are largely antithetical to the African American religious tradition, and black writers like Ellison and John Edgar Wideman ...
... context, his superficial portrayals of black people and culture are more understandable. Nevertheless, Dunbar breaks the established fictional pattern to show the destructive forces affecting black people from a different perspective ...
... context of the depiction of the African American cultural tradition in the majority of black novels and, just as importantly, with respect to the dominant expression of the tradition's own cultural voice in the past and in the evolving ...
תוכן
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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 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in ... <span dir=ltr>James W. Coleman</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2009 |