LEADER 03361oam 2200745I 450 001 9910451057103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-135-87530-8 010 $a1-280-23280-3 010 $a9786610232802 010 $a0-203-64229-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203642290 035 $a(CKB)1000000000253081 035 $a(EBL)200869 035 $a(OCoLC)475912559 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000232036 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11190513 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000232036 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10227104 035 $a(PQKB)10658514 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC200869 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL200869 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10163319 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL23280 035 $a(OCoLC)648144765 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000253081 100 $a20130331d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRacial blasphemies $ereligious irreverence and race in American literature /$fMichael L. Cobb 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (151 p.) 225 1 $aLiterary criticism and cultural theory 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-86515-8 311 $a0-415-97126-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront 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 330 $aRacial Blasphemies, using critical race theory and literary analysis, charts the tense, frustrated religious language that saturates much twentieth-century American literature. Michael Cobb argues that we should consider religious language as a special kind of language - a language of curse words - that furiously communicates not theology or spirituality as much as it signals the sheer difficulty of representing race in a non-racist manner on the literary page. 410 0$aLiterary criticism and cultural theory. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aReligion and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRace relations in literature 606 $aBlasphemy in literature 606 $aReligion in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRace in literature. 615 0$aReligion and literature$xHistory 615 0$aRace relations in literature. 615 0$aBlasphemy in literature. 615 0$aReligion in literature. 676 $a810.9/3552 700 $aCobb$b Michael L.$0904814 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451057103321 996 $aRacial blasphemies$92023501 997 $aUNINA