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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813052304
Subject(s): Genre/Form: 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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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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