Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction"This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature |
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... Mumbo Jumbo (1972). These novels present an engaging overall textual perspective and an interesting cultural portrayal of faithful vision among African American characters. Textual perspectives include ironic stances toward and ...
... andMumbo Jumbo. Brodber's Louisiana and Reed's Mumbo Jumbo define African American hoodoo in terms of its conflation with the diasporan. Most considerMumbo Jumbo to be an African American novel because Reed was born in America, and some ...
... Jumbo, which is much more oppositional to the Bible and Christianity than Louisiana. With the possible exception of ... MumboJumbo, andLouisiana highlight how much voodoo/ hoodoo practice and belief have inflected and, in the last two ...
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Contents
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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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Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in ... James W. Coleman No preview available - 2009 |