Title Racial Blasphemies : Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature

Published London : Routledge, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (130 pages) Series Literary criticism and cultural theory Literary criticism and cultural theory. Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 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 in Flannery O'Connors Wise Blood; Chapter Three "She was Something Vulgar in a Holy Place": The Resanguination of 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 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 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. American fiction. Blasphemy in literature. Race in literature. Race relations in literature. Religion and literature. Religion in literature. United States. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203642290 0203642295

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