Cobb Racial Blasphemies

Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-87530-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten

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 Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter One:
Painfully Obvious: Nakedness and Religious Words in Go Tell It on the Mountain

Arresting Whiteness: Religious History and "Local" Color in Wise Blood
Chapter Three:

"She Was Something Holy in a Vulgar Place": The Resanguination of the Word in Brown Girl, Brownstones
Chapter 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.