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Bernard Shaw's "The Black Girl in Search of God |
 | | The fact that the Black Girl can speak and interrogate as if she were a white male reflects the problematic paradox of her character: she becomes the effect as well as the cause of her own conversion, and nothing can stop her from interrogating and disrupting these paternalistic sites, including that of her own conversion. |
| | She meets manifestations and caricatures of god, and with each meeting concluded, the situation dissolves and sections of her bible fly into the wind, suggesting, too, that the Bible itself is hardly the originating text it is purported to be; it, too, lacks a coherent unity of meaning and purpose. |
| | The Girl is not an Eve, given to the man merely to be his help-mate and mother to the human race, nor is she a new Virgin Mary, Mother of God yet without sexuality or desire. |
| www.msu.edu /~manistaf/shawpaper.html (7368 words) |
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