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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... Perhaps not all black writers incorporate the Bible in some important way into their fiction, following the cultural pattern in which black people make it an integral part of life communally and individually, but black novels reveal ...
... perhaps most—African Americans have faith in the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural because belief is the only thing possible, in the final analysis, in the context of the African cultural background and black American culture and ...
... perhaps suggests the understated, unknown, or unacknowledged elements of hoodoo in the cultural milieus of novels likeA Visitation of Spirits. It is not possible to separate hoodoo from its Christian host in the ensuing explanation of ...
... perhaps less critical of the patriarchy, but both pose female spirituality as an alternative to that tradition. Walker's text presents a uniquely direct attack on God and Christianity, and also ironically formulates a counternarrative ...
... Perhaps a lot of what Wright felt about the role of Christianity in black life came from his bad experience with the Seventh Day Adventist religion of his grandmother. According toBlack Boy, the Christian story told by the Adventist ...
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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 |