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Cosmic Consciousness And Rawlings’S The Sojourner, Ashley Q. Lear
Cosmic Consciousness And Rawlings’S The Sojourner, Ashley Q. Lear
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The epigraph for Rawlings’s The Sojourner quotes I Chronicles 29:15, “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” This opening image is one of many hints to the cosmic consciousness that Rawlings writes into her narratives.