Daughters of the Sun (Excerpted)

<p>“You have never heard of me before. You have never heard of me, but my name has come out of your mouth thousands of times.” So begins my novel, <em>Daughters of the Sun,</em> the story of Jesus’s twin sister, Alleluia. Using the narrative framework seen in Salman Rushdie’s <em>Midnight’s Children, </em>Alleluia tells her story over one night in an appropriated apartment facing a church. She weaves into her story another tale of women who have lived in shadows cast by the men around them, women whom history chose to vilify—Lilith, Adam’s first wife who was written out of the Bible; Mary the “Virgin” Mother; and Mary Magdalene. This is the Gospel they didn’t want you to know. This is the Gospel she has been waiting two thousand years to tell.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Graduate Humanities

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Lynn, Megan

Contributors dc:contributor

• Thomas Burke, MFA
• Gay Lynch, PhD

• Creative Writing
• Fiction
• Arts and Humanities
• Biblical Studies
• Christianity
• Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• History
• History of Christianity
• History of Religion
• Jewish Studies
• Modern Literature
• Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Other Religion
• Religion
• Women's History
• Women's Studies

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.dominican.edu/masters-theses/218

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.dominican.edu:masters-theses-1222