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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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EBSCOhost eBook Community College Collection- 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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