Racial Blasphemies
Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Discrimination & Race Relations
| Author: | Michael L. Cobb | ISBN: | 9781135875299 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | January 11, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Michael L. Cobb |
| ISBN: | 9781135875299 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | January 11, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
