The Politics of Representation: A Critical Discussion of Feminist Spirituality, the Black Madonna Figure and Race in Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees (2002).

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to examine the representations of the black Feminine Divine and two central black characters in the novel and to critically reflect upon what these conceptualisations signify in general and to the maturation process of the white narrator-protagonist, Lily, in particular.