Faithful vision treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
c2006.
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| Series: | Southern literary studies.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- African American faithful belief : imposing social determinism, naturalism, and modernism
- The centrality of religious faith : communal acceptance, textual ambiguity, and paradox
- Critiquing Christian belief : the text as prophecy of different ways of seeing salvation
- Rejecting God and redefining faith : portrayals of Black women's spirituality
- Reshaping and radicalizing faith : the diasporic vision and practice of hoodoo
- Conclusion : fiction, life, and faithful vision : final thoughts on its overall portrayal and relevance.