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Article: "Alias Jeremiah": Oscar Micheaux's pathetic preachers.
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- West Virginia University Philological Papers
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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"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 Gates (1920) and Brat), and Soul (1925), first demonstrating how Micheaux's apparent revulsion for preachers is a function of a related pioneer aesthetic Naming reflects this connection The second part ...