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UNINA9910451057103321 |
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Autore |
Cobb Michael L. |
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Titolo |
Racial blasphemies : religious irreverence and race in American literature / / Michael L. Cobb |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
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1-135-87530-8 |
1-280-23280-3 |
9786610232802 |
0-203-64229-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (151 p.) |
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Collana |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Race in literature |
Religion and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
Race relations in literature |
Blasphemy in literature |
Religion in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Racial Blasphemies; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One. Painfully Obvious: Nakedness and Religious Words in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain; Chapter Two. Arresting Whiteness: Religious History and ""Local"" Color inFlannery O'Connor's Wise Blood; Chapter Three. ""She was Something Vulgar in a Holy Place"": The Resanguinationof the Word in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones; Chapter Four. ""Actual Sacrilege"": The Blasphemous Narration of Time and Race in William Faulkner's Light in August; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Racial Blasphemies, using critical race theory and literary analysis, charts the tense, frustrated religious language that saturates much twentieth-century American literature. Michael Cobb argues that we should consider religious language as a special kind of language - a |
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