Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 230 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0816679894
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0816679908
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1452939446
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1461939674
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9780816679898
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9780816679904
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9781452939445
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9781461939672
Inhalt:
Each Hour Redeem advances a major reinterpretation of African American literature from the late eighteenth century to the present by demonstrating how its authors are centrally concerned with racially different experiences of time. Daylanne K. English 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. The first book to explore the representation of time throughout the African American literary canon, Each Hour Redeem illumina
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe English, Daylanne K Each Hour Redeem
Sprache:
Englisch
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