Sacraments of memory: catholicism and slavery in contemporary african american literature
Auteur :
Salius, Erin Michael
Éditeur :
University Press of Florida
ISBN :
9780813056890
Date de publication :
15 mai 2018
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,2 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
490 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.