TY - BOOK AU - Salius,Erin Michael TI - Sacraments of memory: Catholicism and slavery in contemporary African American literature SN - 9780813052304 AV - PS508.N3 S25 2018eb U1 - 810.9/3828208996073 23 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 - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - American KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references 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 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1628613 UR - https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=5354029 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/58718/ UR - http://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/lib/ulondon/detail.action?p=5354029 UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvx0713b ER -