Racial blasphemies
Subtitle: religious irreverence and race in American literature
By: Michael L. Cobb.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Painfully obvious : nakedness and religious words in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain; title: Arresting whiteness : religious history and "local" color in Flannery O'Connor's Wise blood; title: "She was something vulgar in a holy place" : the resanguination of the word in Paule Marshall's Brown girl, brownstones; title: "Actual sacrilege" : the blasphemous narration of time and race in William Faulkner's Light in august.