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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... look at the range of human possibility and explanation and what is beyond. The African American past shows the intentions of white people with power to destroy the humanity of powerless blacks through the process of making them chattel ...
... looks beyond the limits of the secular world. Faithful vision is a powerful counterstructure in the imagination of the “unspeakable.” It sees sacred, spiritual, and supernatural agency that accounts for African American suffering and ...
... look up in the sky on a bright day and tell new life on the way. She start down the road and come across some [pregnant] nervous somebody beating a path to her house” (5). Angela's Christian/hoodoo vision highly influenced by ...
... looks beyond that to faith; the preacher's belief has none of the depth of traditional African American faith. The text's description of Bigger's mother emphasizes her simplistic otherworldliness and ignores the potential depth of her ...
... look like her, and to pursue a career in movie making, a magic which represents white power.8 Juneteenth does not specify how, but Bliss becomes a “white” senator who uses the Word to denigrate black people and becomes famous by ...
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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