TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salius,Erin Michael
TI  - Sacraments of Memory: Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature 
T2  - Florida scholarship online
SN  - 0813053676
AV  - PS508.N3 S25 2018
U1  - 261.83449309 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Catholics in literature
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History
KW  - Slavery and the church
KW  - Catholic Church
N1  - 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; Specialized
N2  - 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
ER  -