Faithful vision [electronic resource] : treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction / James W. Coleman.
Series: Southern literary studiesPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.Description: 252 pISBN:- 0807130915 (alk. paper)
- 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
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- PS374.N4 C643 2006eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-243) and index.
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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