Catholicism and slavery in contemporary African American literature Salius, Erin Michael creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History. flu 2018 monographic eng 1 online resource 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. 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. Erin Michael Salius Universi. Includes bibliographical references and index. Slavery and the church Catholic Church American literature African American authors History Slavery in literature Catholics in literature African Americans in literature LITERARY CRITICISM American General African Americans in literature American literature African American authors Catholics in literature Slavery and the church Catholic Church Slavery in literature LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American PS508.N3 S25 2018eb 810.9/3828208996073 9780813052304 0813052300 5354029 Proquest Ebook Central 22573/ctvwwf3dk JSTOR https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1628613 https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=5354029 https://muse.jhu.edu/book/58718/ http://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/lib/ulondon/detail.action?p=5354029 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvx0713b https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1628613 https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=5354029 https://muse.jhu.edu/book/58718/ http://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/lib/ulondon/detail.action?p=5354029 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvx0713b N$T 180423 20200709060554.0 on1032000410 eng