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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783833303321

Autore

Cobb Michael L.

Titolo

Racial blasphemies : religious irreverence and race in American literature / / Michael L. Cobb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-87529-4

1-135-87530-8

1-280-23280-3

9786610232802

0-203-64229-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (151 p.)

Collana

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Disciplina

810.9/3552

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



language of curse words - that furiously communicates not theology or spirituality as much as it signals the sheer difficulty of representing race in a non-racist manner on the literary page.