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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... central intention and theme of its narrative and the black communities that it depicts; it represents hoodoo's fusion with Christianity and the Bible and a syncretized faithful vision as a scholarly text can rarely do.6 Thematically,Let ...
... central as Baldwin's does, but from the former work's own unique perspective, the tradition of faithful belief that entails the Christian and biblical is a dominant part of theme and structure to almost the same extent that it is in Go ...
... central to a humanizing, sustaining cultural ethos.4 It was hard for readers to romanticize Bigger and feel good about him, but perhaps his lack of humanity and the novel's evisceration of black culture is part of why white critics such ...
... central part of which is faithful vision that brings the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural to bear on life. One has to ask why African American cultural vision and ethos are not an aspect of the hypothetical new beginning. Perhaps ...
... central theme in the novelis that the virtuoso voice of the folk preacher initiates a spiritual vision that lifts black people to the realization of a higher humanity; the spiritual continually interacts with the secular and profane in ...
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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