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

By:

Salius, Erin Michael [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813052304

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PS508 .S237 2018

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Contents:

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.

Subject: 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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PS508.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1032000410

Includes bibliographies 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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