num_pages: 160
description: 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.
language: English
title: Racial Blasphemies: Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature
titlecomplete: Racial Blasphemies: Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Routledge