Racial blasphemies : religious irreverence and race in American literature /
Cobb, Michael L.
New York ; London : Routledge,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-141) and index.
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.
American fiction
Race in literature.
Religion and literature
Race relations in literature.
Blasphemy in literature.
Religion in literature.