Sacraments of Memory Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature /
Salius, Erin Michael,
Sacraments of Memory Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature / Erin Michael Salius - 1st ed. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2018. - 222p. - Florida scholarship online .
Previously issued in print: 2018.
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.
Specialized.
0813053676 0813052300
African Americans in literature.
Catholics in literature.
Slavery in literature.
American literature--African American authors--History.
Slavery and the church--Catholic Church.
PS508.N3 / S25 2018
261.83449309
Sacraments of Memory Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature / Erin Michael Salius - 1st ed. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2018. - 222p. - Florida scholarship online .
Previously issued in print: 2018.
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.
Specialized.
0813053676 0813052300
African Americans in literature.
Catholics in literature.
Slavery in literature.
American literature--African American authors--History.
Slavery and the church--Catholic Church.
PS508.N3 / S25 2018
261.83449309