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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... postmodern, and were written in the last fifty or so years, reveal that the African American fictional tradition has turned back to affirming faithful vision after moving away from it at midcentury. In The Negro's God as Reflected in ...
... postmodern novels and perhaps suggests the understated, unknown, or unacknowledged elements of hoodoo in the cultural milieus of novels likeA Visitation of Spirits. It is not possible to separate hoodoo from its Christian host in the ...
... postmodern because of its thematization of its own writing and textuality and because it emphasizes the power of the Bible aswriting; my analysis of it is a transition to my critique in later chapters of novels that are postmodern in ...
... postmodern novels that explore, among other things, the role of the biblical and religious tradition and the concept of God as they are “written” into black culture and thus influence the narrative about the culture. Each novel shows a ...
... its almost endless variations, and continue along the lines of the broad pattern of novels with postmodern approaches that are well suited to the exploration of black culture. Louisiana revises the biblical and 13 introduction.
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 |