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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... feel this way under his personal circumstances, but the text misrepresents the black cultural tradition by denying the effect of Christianity. If it were true that black people did not have a practical belief in the agency of the sacred ...
... Bigger gleans from Max's words that he should accept his act of murder as meaningful and die because the murder is what life made him feel and murder is what it made him want to do. Bigger's 21 african american faithful belief.
... feel and having their power; the only thing real is his act that leads to his own destruction. Obviously, if faith in the African American tradition did not empower black people to overcome spiritually the impositions of white people ...
... feels constrained, therefore, to battle for his humanity according to those criteria bequeathed him at his birth ... feel good about him, but perhaps his lack of humanity and the novel's evisceration of black culture is part of why white ...
... feel how he had unsuccessfully tried to use his own empty, preacher-like ritualizing of words in the chapel to touch a deeper, more authentic black reality as represented by Miss Susie Gresham, the matron who is a “relic of slavery whom ...
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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