Sacraments of memory : Catholicism and slavery in contemporary African American literature / Erin Michael Salius Universi.
By: Salius, Erin Michael [author.].
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BookPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813052304; 0813052300.Subject(s): Slavery and the church -- Catholic Church | American literature -- African American authors -- History | Slavery in literature | Catholics in literature | African Americans in literature | African Americans in literature | American literature -- African American authors | Catholics in literature | Slavery and the church -- Catholic Church | Slavery in literature | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / GeneralGenre/Form: History. | Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/3828208996073 Online resources: EBSCOhost | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Towards a reading of the Catholic margin in contemporary narratives of slavery -- Toni Morrison's sacramental rememory -- A sacred communion: the Catholic side of possession in the autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Two wings to veil my face -- Catholicism and narrative time: transcending the past and the present in stigmata and oxherding tale -- Catholicism and narrative time, continued: divine prescience in Edward P. Jones's The Known World Coda.
This book argues that Catholicism informs a major genre of African American literature in ways and with a significance that has gone largely unrecognized. Sacraments of Memory thus proposes a new framework for understanding the revisionist aims of these works, contextualizing the skepticism they exhibit towards historical realism in terms of a Catholic counter-tradition in American literature that has long been associated with superstition and irrationality.
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