Bernard Shaw's The Black girl in search of God : the story behind the story / Leon Hugo.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Hugo, Leon, author.

Series:

• Florida Bernard Shaw series.
• The Florida Bernard Shaw series Bernard Shaw's The Black girl in search of God

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Adventures of the black girl in her search for God.
• Women, Black, in literature.
• Religion in literature.
• God in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

''Leon Hugo, a distinguished Shaw scholar from the country in which The Black Girl in Search of God is set, is the ideal critic to examine Shaw's most famous prose tale--an allegory on a par with Voltaire's Candide.''--Stanley Weintraub, Pennsylvania State University ''An astute reading of the text .

Contents:

Table of Contents; List of Illustrations ix; Foreword xi; Acknowledgments xv; 1. Antecedents: Voltaire and Others 1; 2. Foreshadowing 24; 3. Accident 40; 4. Publication 52; 5. Reaction, Censorship, Repudiation 71; 6. Rejoinder 98; 7. Champion 130; Notes 151; Works Cited 157; Index 163

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-162) and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-3186-9

OCLC:

476046457