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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... woman Mamma Habblesham. Before and after her death Mamma is a spiritual, mystic presence that balances Angela's meanness and potential evil. Angela's distinctly evil acts generated partly by hoodoo supernatural powers are necessary to ...
... Woman (1899) much earlier, but Cane, which also has suggestions and implications of hoodoo, is a more substantive portrayal of African American religious belief than Chesnutt's. Zora Neale Hurston'sJonah's Gourd Vine (1934) is another ...
... woman resists when the white evictors try to take her Bible (269–70), and then both the man and woman insist on going back into the apartment with the Bible to pray (273–74), which causes the riot. In these characters, faithful vision ...
... woman singing a spiritual in a setting that examines the meaning of freedom for black people historically and in the present. The spiritual song symbolizes faithful vision at the beginning of the episode conceptualizing ambivalent ...
... woman calling him her son pulls him from the coffin during the resurrection ritual and scares the black people (153–59). He in turn calls her his mother and sets out to find her in movie figures who look like her, and to pursue a career ...
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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