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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... Portrayals of Black Women's Spirituality chapter 5 · 156 Reshaping and Radicalizing Faith The Diasporic Vision and Practice of Hoodoo conclusion ... Portrayal and Relevance notes · 205 bibliography · 233 index · 245 faithful vision Contents.
... portrayal and artistic exploration. Chapter 1 shows how the three literary movements constrained the portrayal of cultural tradition, and also reveals that writers sometimes evolve toward more substantive depictions of black tradition ...
... portrayal of faithful vision among African American characters. Textual perspectives include ironic stances toward and affirmation of Christian belief, parody and subversion of it, and apparent affirmation of hoodoo faithful vision. The ...
... portrayals of Christianity and faith that have the depth of those depicted in the texts studied here. Like Toomer, the protagonist is not close to black people, and at the end of Cane, he runs away from African American culture because ...
... portrayal of African American religious belief than Chesnutt's. Zora Neale Hurston'sJonah's Gourd Vine (1934) is another notable early work. Besides using the dominant symbol of the story of Jonah in its title, the novel thematically ...
Contenido
1 | |
16 | |
43 | |
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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