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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... critical discourses holding sway in the academy, reminiscent of how mid-twentiethcentury writers like Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison focused on mainstream literary traditions to establish themselves. These academic discourses do not ...
... 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 in power 4 faithful vision.
... critical and adversarial treatments that seldom reveal the writers' ability to reject their characters' cultural belief. The novels in this study, most of which are canonical and postmodern, and were written in the last fifty or so ...
... critical stance toward black writers and black culture that I am not taking. However, he also indicates that in pre-1937 literature and cultural expression, there is a pattern that is the precursor to the later in-depth treatment of ...
... critically ironic, but just as often the narratives leave open the way for acceptance of traditional faithful belief. A Visitation of Spirits is postmodern because of its thematization of its own writing and textuality and because it ...
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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