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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... narratives engage Christianity in 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 ...
... narrative and the black communities that it depicts; it represents hoodoo's fusion with Christianity and the Bible and a syncretized faithful vision as a scholarly text can rarely do.6 Thematically,Let the Lion Eat Straw is as much ...
... narratives leave open the way for acceptance of traditional faithful belief. A Visitation of Spirits is postmodern ... narrative theory implied or stated in the text itself. Generally speaking, the postmodern is a practical mode to use ...
... narrative about the culture. Each novel shows a different textual approach to portraying the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in a unique community and in individual lives that all share the same general view of African American ...
... narrative perspective to separate itself from cultural belief. This is a different exposition of faithful vision that is adversarial and yet at the same time reflective of its power and centrality for African Americans. Naylor's work is ...
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 |