Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Erin Michael Salius
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.490kg
ISBN: 9780813056890
ISBN 10: 0813056896
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 30 May 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
""An incisive account of Catholicism's presence within the post-1960s genre of the neo-slave narrative and its long-standing history in the African-American literary tradition. . . . Salius' work truly inaugurates a new sub-field in African-American literary criticism, one that reimagines a multi-disciplinary, trans-historical, and cross-genre approach to U.S. Catholicism and the literature of slavery.""--Christianity and Literature ""Well-written. . . . Provides heretofore unknown or unacknowledged insight into the presence and significance of Catholicism for these writers. . . . An important addition to the critical literature on ex-slave narratives. Salius has hopefully opened a new door that others will soon walk through and as such provides a challenge for those in Catholic and African American studies to explore this new and inviting path.""--American Catholic Studies
An incisive account of Catholicism's presence within the post-1960s genre of the neo-slave narrative and its long-standing history in the African-American literary tradition. . . . Salius' work truly inaugurates a new sub-field in African-American literary criticism, one that reimagines a multi-disciplinary, trans-historical, and cross-genre approach to U.S. Catholicism and the literature of slavery. --Christianity and Literature Well-written. . . . Provides heretofore unknown or unacknowledged insight into the presence and significance of Catholicism for these writers. . . . An important addition to the critical literature on ex-slave narratives. Salius has hopefully opened a new door that others will soon walk through and as such provides a challenge for those in Catholic and African American studies to explore this new and inviting path. --American Catholic Studies
Author Information
Erin Michael Salius is associate director of Summer Term at Boston University.
