Racial Blasphemies: Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature

By Michael Cobb

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415971268
• ISBN13: 9780415971263
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"