TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salius,Erin Michael
TI  - Sacraments of memory: Catholicism and slavery in contemporary African American literature 
SN  - 9780813052304
AV  - PS508 .S237 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Slavery and the church
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - Catholics in literature
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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