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

Published New York : Routledge, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 145 pages) Series Literary criticism and cultural theory Literary criticism and cultural theory. Contents Painfully obvious : nakedness and religious words in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain -- Arresting whiteness : religious history and "local" color in Flannery O'Connor's Wise blood -- "She was something vulgar in a holy place" : the resanguination of the word in Paule Marshall's Brown girl, brownstones -- "Actual sacrilege" : the blasphemous narration of time and race in William Faulkner's Light in august Summary Using critical race theory and literary analysis, this book charts the tense, frustrated religious language that saturates much twentieth-century American literature Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-141) and index Notes Print version record Subject 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. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American fiction Blasphemy in literature Race in literature Race relations in literature Religion and literature Religion in literature United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0203642295 9780203642290

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