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

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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

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