Spirituality, transmigration and transformation in Octavia Butler's "Kindred", Phyllis Alesia Perry's "Stigmata" and Alice Walker's "The Temple of My Familiar"
by Thomas, Griselda Denise, Ph.D., TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, 2008, 214 pages; 3300381

Abstract:

This dissertation is a literary explication of Octavia Butler's Kindred, Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata, and Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar. The overall goal is to use the literary device transmigration to describe how and why these authors move their characters through time and space to connect the present to the past. The purpose of creating and using transmigration is to provide a new literary device through which to examine the theme of spirituality in novels written by contemporary Black women writers. The use of transmigration in these novels is supported with the examination of John Mbiti's concept of African time; Janheinz Jahn's explanation of NTU, the life-force of magara Nommo; and Africanisms in African-American folklore.

 
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SchoolTEMPLE UNIVERSITY
SourceDAI/A 69-01, p. , Apr 2008
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsBlack studies; Philosophy; Women's studies; American literature
Publication Number3300381
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