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Each hour redeem : time and justice in African American literature /
This book advances a major reinterpretation of African American literature from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century by demonstrating how its authors are centrally concerned with racially different experiences of time. The author argues that, from Phillis Wheatley to Suzan-Lori Park...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis ; London :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2013]
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction : Political fictions
- Ticking, not talking : Timekeeping in early African American literature
- "Temporal damage" : Pragmatism and Plessy in African American novels, 1896-1902
- "The death of the last Black man" : Repetition, lynching, and capital punishment in twentieth-century African American literature
- "Seize the time!" : Strategic presentism in the Black arts movement
- Being Black there : Contemporary African American detective fiction
- Conclusion : Political truths.