"Alias Jeremiah": Oscar Micheaux's pathetic preachers.

From: West Virginia University Philological Papers | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Bilwakesh, Nikhil | Copyright information

"I have become a laughingstock all day long, everyone mocks me." Jeremiah 20:7 *

"My heart is crushed within me, all my bones shake, I have become like a drunkard, like one overcome with wine."--Jeremiah 22:9

"Crushed--Body and Soul."--Isabelle, from Body and Soul

This paper will survey the portrayal of preachers in two of Oscar Micheaux's earliest novels, The Conquest (1913) and The Homesteader (1917), and two of his earliest films, Within Our Gat...

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