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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... text's, and the text's own critical 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 ...
... texts, faithful vision invests the writers in the cultural tradition that they depict, producing a variety of critical and adversarial treatments that seldom reveal the writers' ability to reject their characters' cultural belief. The ...
... text can rarely do.6 Thematically,Let the Lion Eat Straw is as much about African American religious faith related to the Bible as are black texts about African Americans who strongly avow Christianity; it is one of the few black novels ...
... text itself in this case, more markedly bring together hoodoo and Christianity. The novel Louisiana (1994) has a different but similarly strong expression of faithful vision that is hoodoo.Mama Day (1988) has a more ambiguous system of ...
... texts range from traditional Christian faith to untraditional hoodoo faith. Go Tell It on the Mountain and A ... text fails to reject, in spite of subjecting it to analysis and negative criticism.Go Tell It on the Mountain is probably ...
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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 |