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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... relationship with the Bible and the associated Judeo-Christian ethic. Traditionally, an appropriated story of faith is more substantively influential than biblical moral statute. Faith overarches the philosophical, social, and political ...
... relationships. These depictions still portray traditional, less womanist faithful vision as the characters' or the black community's vision rather than the writer's or the text's, and the text's own critical perspective may be ...
... relationships of syncretism and revise the Bible and Christian theology, and voodoo/hoodoo may be a construction that opposes them. In these texts, faithful vision invests the writers in the cultural tradition that they depict ...
... relationship to them, is always there when voodoo/hoodoo is present.5 Ellease Southerland's novel Let the Lion Eat Straw (1979) affirms faith in the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural asthe central intention and theme of its narrative ...
... relationship to Christianity is a crossover to the treatment of the greater depths of the diasporan cultural tradition in Louisiana andMumbo Jumbo. Brodber's Louisiana and Reed's Mumbo Jumbo define African American hoodoo in terms of ...
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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