Premium Content The Quest for Salvation: Religion in Wise Blood and Black Boy
By Julia Neusner - December 22, 2010
The Christian religion plays a key role in both Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood and Richard Wright’s Black Boy. Despite the authors’ ideological differences, both Wright’s childhood self and O’Connor’s protagonist, Hazel Motes, share common objectives: to understand and overcome the traumatic religious experiences imposed upon them during their…
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