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100 1 $aEnglish, Daylanne K.
245 10 $aEach Hour Redeem :$bTime and Justice in African American Literature /$cDaylanne K. English.
264 1 $aMinneapolis ;$aLondon :$bUniversity of Minnesota Press,$c[2013]
300 $avii, 230 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
520 $a"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 illuminates how the pervasive and potent tropes of timekeeping provide the basis for an overarching new understanding of the tradition. Combing literary, historical, legal, and philosophical approaches, Each Hour Redeem examines a wide range of genres, including poetry, fiction, drama, slave narratives, and other forms of nonfiction. English shows that much of African American literature is characterized by "strategic anachronism," the use of prior literary forms to investigate contemporary political realities, as seen in Walter Mosley's recent turn to hard-boiled detective fiction. By contrast, "strategic presentism" is exemplified in the Black Arts Movement and the Harlem Renaissance and their investment in contemporary political potentialities, for example, in Langston Hughes and Amiri Baraka's adaptation of the jazz of their eras for poetic form and content. Overall, the book effectively demonstrates how African American writers have employed multiple and complex conceptions of time not only to trace racial injustice but also to help construct a powerful literary tradition across the centuries." -- Publisher's description.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aTime in literature.
650 0 $aJustice in literature.
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