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Sacraments of Memory Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature / Erin Michael Salius

By: Salius, Erin Michael [author.]Series: Publication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2018. Edition: 1st edDescription: 222pISBN: 0813053676; 0813052300Subject(s): African Americans in literature | Catholics in literature | Slavery in literature | American literature -- African American authors -- History | Slavery and the church -- Catholic ChurchAdditional physical formats: No titleDDC classification: 261.83449309 LOC classification: PS508.N3 | S25 2018
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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