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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... ritual, song, and saying—of collective and individual worldly endurance, success, and divine salvation in African American culture. However, with regard to faithful vision, the African worldview of the shadowy 2 faithful vision.
... Americans; a book of ritual prescriptions for reenvisioning and, therein, transforming history and culture . . . African spirituality [is] a potent source of black North American religious experience” (3). African 6 faithful vision.
... ritual of voodoo/hoodoo inspired by African culture as it is by the Christian. Smith's analysis demonstrates that voodoo/hoodoo is such an integral part of African American Christian belief and practice as to be inseparable from it ...
... rituals. The Bible projects a substantive aspect of the novel's faith in God's benevolent but inscrutable plan, of which the main character's life and the experience of black people generally are a part. The epigraph is from Isaiah 11:6 ...
... ritual that symbolizes faithful vision also figuratively represents the potential achievement of American freedom and equality. From this general standpoint, Wright's writing opposes Ellison and Wideman's. His negative personal and ...
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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