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...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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London :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2013]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | 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 Parks, African American writers have depicted distinctive forms of temporality to challenge racial injustices supported by dominant ideas of time. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (240 pages): illustrations |
ISBN: | 9781452939445 |