Racial Blasphemies

Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-97126-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cobb, Michael L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

IntroductionChapter One: Painfully Obvious: Nakedness and Religious Words in Go Tell It on the MountainArresting Whiteness: Religious History and Local Color in Wise BloodChapter Three:She Was Something Holy in a Vulgar Place: The Resanguination of the Word in Brown Girl, BrownstonesChapter Four:Actual Sacrilege: The Blasphemous Narration of Race in Light in August

Über Autor(innen)

Michael L. Cobb is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His essays on race, sexuality, and literature have appeared in Callaloo, GLQ, and the University of Toronto Quarterly.