A Mercy
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Author_Erin Michael Salius
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Black Power
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Catholic margin
Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature
Charles Johnson
church
civil rights
contemporary
Enlightenment
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Erin Michael Salius
Ernest Gaines
Eucharist
historiography
legacy of slavery
Leon Forrest
Memory
narratives of slavery
Orlando Patterson
Oxherding Tale
Phyllis Alesia Perry
postmodernist
race
rememory
sacraments
Sacraments of Memory
Social Death
spirit possession
Stigmata
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Toni Morrison
Two Wings to Veil My Face
Vatican II
Product details
- ISBN 9780813056890
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2018
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 exhibit towards historical realism in terms of a Catholic counter-tradition in American literature that has long been associated with superstition and irrationality.
Erin Michael Salius is associate director of Summer Term at Boston University.
