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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... true that white people who hate him refuse to see Bigger's humanity, and this generates a hard existence for him and black people generally. Yet the tradition of faithful vision in African American culture shows that reality is more ...
... true to his belief and the belief of many other individuals, does not represent the deeper complexity and substance of the cultural ethos.3 I certainly do not want to diminish the great achievement of Native Son. This graphic novel ...
... true to African American life, it is an empowering part of existence inseparable from the secular world. In the prologue, the narrator relates events that have already happened, bringing him to his conclusions about modernist reality ...
... true sustenance in this expression and affirmation. Early chapters reveal the pattern of the connection between the black cultural and modernist, too. Chapter 5 implies a similar point about ritual appropriated by powerful white people ...
... true democracy. As is the case at the end of Native Son, this plan is very “white” because potential in Invisible Man apparently resides solely in white men, the founders of the country who must set the principles of American democracy ...
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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