Breaking the chains of colonial Christianity : origins and purposes of weaponized Chrisitianity in postcolonial literature
dc.access.option | Restricted Campus Access Only | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Deena, Seodial F. H. (Seodial Frank Hubert), 1956- | |
dc.contributor.author | McMillion, Jamal Laruba | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Banks, William P | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Gueye, Marame | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Watson, Reginald | |
dc.contributor.department | English | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-12T19:18:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-12T19:18:26Z | |
dc.date.created | 2022-07 | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-07-20 | |
dc.date.submitted | July 2022 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-08-30T19:22:49Z | |
dc.degree.department | English | |
dc.degree.discipline | MA-English | |
dc.degree.grantor | East Carolina University | |
dc.degree.level | Masters | |
dc.degree.name | M.A. | |
dc.description.abstract | In this thesis, I examine how weaponized colonial Christianity was the most effective means of Black subordination, and I assert that weaponized colonial Christianity gave license to Europeans to chronologically invade African geographies, commodify and objectify African bodies and negate African identity. Weaponized Christianity fostered anti-Blackness. Through textual analysis of selected colonial/postcolonial, I explored Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel, Purple Hibiscus; Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin; Olaudah Equiano's autobiography, The Interesting Narrative Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself; Richard Wright's novel, Uncle Tom's Children; and Alice Walker's novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland through a post-colonial lens of oppression and present European weaponization of Biblical ideologies as the underpinning of historical and contemporary Black oppression, as such ideologies were/are reinforced by majoritarian institutions and performative practices that created a global problematized social hierarchy that became more intractable as it persisted. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10342/11133 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | East Carolina University | |
dc.subject | The Bible and Black oppression | |
dc.subject | Made in his own image | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Christianity in literature | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Racism in literature | |
dc.subject.lcsh | African Americans--Civil rights | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Racism against Black people | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- . Purple hibiscus | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797. The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Uncle Tom's children | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Walker, Alice, 1944- .Third life of Grange Copeland | |
dc.title | Breaking the chains of colonial Christianity : origins and purposes of weaponized Chrisitianity in postcolonial literature | |
dc.type | Master's Thesis | |
dc.type.material | text |