Faithful vision treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction /

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Hlavní autor: Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946-
Korporativní autor: ebrary, Inc
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.
Edice:Southern literary studies.
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Obsah:
  • 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.