A01=Michael L. Cobb
Actual Sacrilege
African American Body
African American Literature
African Americans
American literary criticism
Author_Michael L. Cobb
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Black Flesh
blasphemous
Blasphemous Utterance
blasphemy in literature
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critical race theory
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Father Peace
flesh
Home Owners Association
Joe Christmas
Joe's Body
John's Body
language
LEM
Mama
Mrican American
race religion literary intersection
Racial Embodiment
religious
religious discourse analysis
Religious Language
Religious Rhetoric
Religious Vernacular
Religious Words
representation of identity
rhetoric
Size Up
Surrogate Victim
twentieth-century fiction studies
utterance
vernacular
Vice Versa
Violating
White Space
Wise Blood
words
Product details
- ISBN 9780415865159
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jan 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Michael L. Cobb is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His essays on race, sexuality, and literature have appeared in Callaloo, GLQ, and the University of Toronto Quarterly.
