Racial Blasphemies Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature |
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| Author:
| Cobb, Michael L. |
| Series title: | Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-86515-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2014 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $55.95 |
Book Description:
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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.