| Portion of title |
Breaking the chains of colonial Christianity origins and purposes of weaponized Christianity in postcolonial literature. |
| Summary |
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. |
| General note | Presented to the Graduated Faculty of the Department of English |
| General note | Advisor: Seodial Frank H. Deena |
| General note | Title from PDF t.p. (viewed March 21, 2024). |
| Dissertation note | M.A. East Carolina University 2022 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Technical details | System requirements: Adobe Reader. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Genre/form | dissertations. |
| Genre/form | Academic theses. |
| Genre/form | Academic theses. |
| Genre/form | Thèses et écrits académiques. |
