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

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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 exh...

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Main Author: Salius, Erin Michael (Author)
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
Subjects:
Slavery and the church > Catholic Church.
American literature > African American authors > History.
Slavery in literature.
Catholics in literature.
African Americans in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:ix, 223 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.