Sacraments of Memory : Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature /

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"This study argues that Catholicism informs a major genre of African American literature in ways and with a significance that has gone largely unrecognized. Since their emergence in the 1960s and 1970s, contemporary narratives of slavery have challenged the traditional historiography of America...

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Main Author: Salius, Erin Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Catholic Church.
Slavery in literature.
Catholics in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
African Americans in literature.
Slavery and the church.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Catholiques dans la litterature.
Esclavage dans la litterature.
American literature > African American authors > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Towards a reading of the Catholic margin in contemporary narratives of slavery
  • Toni Morrison's sacramental rememory
  • A sacred communion
  • Catholicism and narrative time
  • Catholicism and narrative time, continued.

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