Faithful vision : treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction / James W. Coleman
- Author
- Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946-2019
- Published
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2006]
- Copyright Date
- ©2006
- Physical Description
- 252 pages ; 24 cm.
- Series
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- American fiction—African American authors—History and criticism
- Religion and literature—United States—History—20th century
- American fiction—20th century—History and criticism
- Religious fiction, American—History and criticism
- African Americans in literature
- Spiritual life in literature
- Supernatural in literature
- Spiritualism in literature
- Holy, The, in literature
- Faith in literature
- ISBN
- 0807130915 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index.
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