Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American FictionLSU Press, 2006 - 264 páginas "This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature |
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... body and thus denies any faith that is not totally organic (255). Bigger wants to feel something beyond his own black body, though, and in this scene, he looks toward the white man for faith. Bigger rejects the Christian view as ...
... body sings “sincerely . . . not . . . for the [white] guests, but for themselves; a song of hope and exaltation” (134). The song engenders a brief glimpse of genuine expectation and joy that uplifts and that the narrator observes but ...
... body of a “white” man that “pointed the way for all of us who would be free—yes!” (280). But once the woman breaks the ritual, she ruptures his chance of pursuing human freedom on the highest plane (265–66). Shallowness, superficiality ...
... body's chains, palpitating inside each roll of fat, reviving the dead, hanging flesh so it quivered, so it jumped like so many nervous cats and in a moment on his feet, not lumbering as his tremendous bulk should move, but agile and ...
... shows John's deliverance from the darkness through the self-abnegating threshing floor experience that enables the Word's spiritual habitation of his mind and body. Perhaps Deborah comes closest to describing the 44 faithful vision.
Contenido
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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 |
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