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 |
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... 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.
... implies; the point is the substantive effect of the story on black people's lives. Bigger's account totally ignores the necessary engagement of belief with reality, and this is what makes his portrayal and the portrayal of black life ...
... imply the inclusion of the African American cultural tradition. The epilogue obviously constitutes the last words of the narrator in the novel, and I would say that his failure clearly to include black culture is at least symbolically a ...
... implies the connection of faithful vision to survival in the secular world. The “voice rose and fell in a rhythmical, dreamlike recital—part enumeration of earthly trials undergone by the congregation, part display of vocal virtuosity ...
... implies that there is something he is missing, though. There is a power in the song that goes beyond the “slave-borne words; it was as though he'd changed the emotion beneath the words while yet the old longing, resigned, transcendent ...
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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 |