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100 1 $aColeman, James W.$q(James Wilmouth),$d1946-2019.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00028909
245 10 $aFaithful vision :$btreatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction /$cJames W. Coleman.
260 $aBaton Rouge :$bLouisiana State University Press,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $a252 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aSouthern literary studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-243) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : faithful vision : its definition and significance in African American culture and fiction --$gCh. 1.$tAfrican American faithful belief : imposing social determinism, naturalism, and modernism --$gCh. 2.$tThe centrality of religious faith : communal acceptance, textual ambiguity, and paradox --$gCh. 3.$tCritiquing Christian belief : the text as prophecy of different ways of seeing salvation --$gCh. 4.$tRejecting God and redefining faith : portrayals of black women's spirituality --$gCh. 5.$tReshaping and radicalizing faith : the diasporic vision and practice of Hoodoo --$tConclusion : fiction, life, and faithful vision : final thoughts on its overall portrayal and relevance.
520 1 $a"In Faithful Vision, James W. Coleman places under his critical lens a wide array of African American novels written during the last half of the twentieth century. In doing so, he demonstrates that religious vision not only informs black literature but also serves as a foundation for black culture generally." "The Judeo-Christian tradition, according to Coleman, is the primary component of the African American spiritual perspective, though its syncretism with voodoo/hoodoo - a religion transported from West Africa through the West Indies and New Orleans to the rest of black America - also figures largely. Reviewing novels written mainly since 1950 by writers including James Baldwin, Randall Kenan, Toni Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Erna Brodber, and Ishmael Reed, among others, Coleman explores how black authors have addressed the relevance of faith, especially as it relates to an oppressive Christian tradition. He shows that their novels - no matter how critical of the sacred or supernatural, or how skeptical the characters' viewpoints - ultimately never reject the vision of faith." "Black novelists, Coleman concludes, stay connected in many ways to the culture that they write about. Faith, a source of strength historically for the black community, remains a powerful influence on black literature, as seen in the content, structure, ideology, and themes of twentieth-century African American novels. With its focus on religious experience and tradition and its wider discussion of history, philosophy, gender, and postmodernism, Faithful Vision brings a bold critical dimension to African American literary studies."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100756
650 0 $aReligion and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100687
650 0 $aReligious fiction, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85002009
650 0 $aSpiritual life in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98003295
650 0 $aSupernatural in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85130633
650 0 $aSpiritualism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126777
650 0 $aHoly, The, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061560
650 0 $aFaith in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046937
830 0 $aSouthern literary studies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42022954
852 00 $bglx$hPS374.N4$iC643 2006
852 00 $bbar$hPS374.N4$iC643 2006