Sacraments of Memory : Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0813056896
ISBN-13
9780813056890
Publisher
University Press of Florida
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University Press of Florida
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 15th, 2018
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
490 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.20 x 1.70 cms
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Argues that Catholicism informs a major genre of African American literature in ways and with a significance that has gone largely unrecognised. Sacraments of Memory thus proposes a new framework for understanding the revisionist aims of these works, contextualizing the scepticism they exhibit towards historical realism in terms of a Catholic counter-tradition in American literature.
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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