"THE GULF OF DISLIKE" BETWEEN REALITY AND RESEMBLANCE IN BERNARD SHAW'S "THE BLACK GIRL IN SEARCH OF GOD"
Discusses the dialectic of the black girl in George Bernard Shaw's play "The Black Girl in Search of God." Doubled and doubling perception created by the representation of blackness; Girl's quest of finding her own religious experience; Shaw's presentation of the black girl as a blank slate and a c...
| Publicado en: | Shaw: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies Vol. 23; pp. 117 - 136 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
2003
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| Sumario: | Discusses the dialectic of the black girl in George Bernard Shaw's play "The Black Girl in Search of God." Doubled and doubling perception created by the representation of blackness; Girl's quest of finding her own religious experience; Shaw's presentation of the black girl as a blank slate and a culture-less voice; Ways in which the play is a somewhat labored comedic exploration of ideologies and systems of bad faith that bind persons in misery. |
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