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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... hands and tried to touch his mother's face and tell her yes [he would pray]; and as he did so something screamed deep down in him that it was a lie, that seeing her after they killed him would never be. But his mother believed; it was ...
... hands and wagged at the devil” (127). Yet he cannot “keep pace with [the rhythm of] Tiny's dance” because apparently his own abstract imagination fails him, and he “gaze[s] thoughtfully and silently at a spectacle his words could no ...
... hand to [Esther] it was as [God's] instrument . . . if the instrument of [God's] knowledge must blister the flesh, surely it is better received here in earthly fires and in a time that has beginning and 37 african american faithful belief.
... hand, Gabriel experiences the Word of God in his spirit like King David, the Old Testament “Lords anointed” from whom Gabriel takes his title, and like King David he does destructive things to other people, particularly women. Why is ...
... hand on him from his earliest beginnings; but then he knew only that when each night came, chaos and fever raged in him; the silence in the cabin between his mother and himself became something that could not be borne; not looking at ...
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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