Breaking the chains of colonial Christianity : origins and purposes of weaponized Chrisitianity in postcolonial literature

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.

Department dc:contributor.department

English

Grantor dc:publisher

East Carolina University

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• McMillion, Jamal Laruba

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Deena, Seodial F. H. (Seodial Frank Hubert), 1956-

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Banks, William P
• Gueye, Marame
• Watson, Reginald

• The Bible and Black oppression
• Made in his own image

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10342/11133

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:thescholarship.ecu.edu:10342/11133