TY - BOOK AU - Coleman,James W. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Faithful vision: treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction T2 - Southern literary studies AV - PS374.N4 C643 2006eb U1 - 813/.509382 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Baton Rouge PB - Louisiana State University Press KW - American fiction KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Religion and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Religious fiction, American KW - African Americans in literature KW - Spiritual life in literature KW - Supernatural in literature KW - Spiritualism in literature KW - Holy, The, in literature KW - Faith in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10350304 ER -