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

Main Author: Coleman, James W. 1946-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.
Series:Southern literary studies
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10350304
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300 |a 252 p. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-243) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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650 0 |a Spiritual life in literature. 
650 0 |a Supernatural in literature. 
650 0 |a Spiritualism in literature. 
650 0 |a Holy, The, in literature. 
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