Sacraments Of Memory: Catholicism And Slavery In Contemporary African American Literature - 9780813056890

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.

• | Author: Erin Michael Salius
• | Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• | Publication Date: May 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 234 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0813056896
• | ISBN-13: 9780813056890