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

ISBN-13: 9780813056890 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Erin Michael Salius

Opis

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.