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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... novels that so clearly foregrounds religion and related biblical textuality. If anything, the title of the novel gives it a clearer connection to the Bible than the titles of Go Tell It on the Mountain and Randall Kenan's A Visitation ...
... novel reads “And the lion shall eat straw like the ox” (181). In spite of the biblical implications of God's inescapable will, the power that the characters draw upon and that the novel affirms is more than Judeo-Christian. The hoodoo ...
... novel's view (which is ultimately its own faithful vision that is literally contained at beginning and end by the quotations from Isaiah 11:6–7) accepts evil and the efficacy of the acts of individuals whose faithful beliefincorporates ...
... novels in which black people confess Christianity than it has in works likeLet the Lion Eat Straw in which the community, and the text itself in this case, more markedly bring together hoodoo and Christianity. The novel Louisiana (1994) ...
... novels present an engaging overall textual perspective and an interesting cultural portrayal of faithful vision among ... novel does not make religion and the church as central as Baldwin's does, but from the former work's own unique ...
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 |