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 Universi. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2018. - 1 online resource
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.
9780813052304
Slavery and the church--Catholic Church.
American literature--African American authors--History.
Slavery in literature.
Catholics in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Electronic Books.
PS508 / .S237 2018
Sacraments of memory : Catholicism and slavery in contemporary African American literature / Erin Michael Salius Universi. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2018. - 1 online resource
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.
9780813052304
Slavery and the church--Catholic Church.
American literature--African American authors--History.
Slavery in literature.
Catholics in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Electronic Books.
PS508 / .S237 2018