Bibliograph

Sacraments of memory, Catholicism and slavery in contemporary African American literature, Erin Michael Salius

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Sacraments of memory, Catholicism and slavery in contemporary African American literature, Erin Michael Salius

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-215) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sacraments of memory

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1331705711

Responsibility statement

Erin Michael Salius

Sub title

Catholicism and slavery in contemporary African American literature

Summary

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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Catholicism and slavery in contemporary African American literature

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