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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... perspective, what I call “faithful vision” represents reality because it is beyond comprehension that African Americans could emerge from the destructive past as complex human beings without the agency of the sacred, spiritual, and ...
... perspective of God and locate the sacred and spiritual in the womanist self that engages in personal, individual relationships. These depictions still portray traditional, less womanist faithful vision as the characters' or the black ...
... perspective related to African tradition, writers also construct alternative theological, spiritual, and supernatural perspectives against oppression and hardship based on the voodoo or hoodoo religion.3 These narratives engage ...
... perspectives of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural and have greatly extended what black writers did before Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Faith is not a word that most associate with hoodoo/voodoo because it is popularly ...
... perspective grafts the African past and ambience onto the biblical and weaves it together with the supernatural that is generally associated with Africa and voodoo and the natural force of the hoodoo-infused environment of the American ...
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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