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 52
... voice ... 'sleep on. Sleep on'”; Mamma “said ever so quietly, 'Hush your mouth'” (180). The voices of Mamma and Angela symbolize the broadness of hoodoo-motivated faithful vision as shown through the characters and also as affirmed by ...
... voice, and Mama Day from the perspective of telling a story that is passed down in words and is also subconscious myth. Thus both fall into the postmodern pattern that allows writers to innovate and to delineate the complexity of the ...
... voice in the past and in the evolving present. If the text itself did not mention the characters' faith, then the distortion of faithful vision's potential and the black cultural ethos generally would not be as explicit, but it would ...
... voice rose and fell in a rhythmical, dreamlike recital—part enumeration of earthly trials undergone by the congregation, part display of vocal virtuosity, part appeal to God” (496). Rinehart's church is an elaborate deception possible ...
... voices here, condemning African American cultural ritual in one instance and analyzing the positive in the other. In ... voice when he tells the white men of the Brotherhood that they totally misunderstand the Negro people (468); he ...
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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 |