Each Hour Redeem : Time and Justice in African American Literature /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: English, Daylanne K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Zeit
Justiz
Literatur
Time in literature.
Justice in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Justice dans la litterature.
Temps dans la litterature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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