Salius, Erin Michael, <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813052304 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Slavery and the church--Catholic Church.<br/>American literature--African American authors--History.<br/>Slavery in literature.<br/>Catholics in literature.<br/>African Americans in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS508  / .S237 2018