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Author Salius, Erin Michael, author.

Title Sacraments of memory : Catholicism and slavery in contemporary African American literature / Erin Michael Salius Universi.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
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Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject Slavery and the church -- Catholic Church.
Slavery and the church -- Catholic Church.
American literature -- African American authors -- History.
American literature -- African American authors.
History.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Catholics in literature.
Catholics in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
ISBN 9780813052304 (electronic book)
0813052300 (electronic book)
9780813056890
0813056896