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Daylanne K. English - Each Hour Redeem - 9780816679904 - V9780816679904
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Each Hour Redeem

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Description for Each Hour Redeem Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.


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 ... Read more


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.


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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816679904
SKU
V9780816679904
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About Daylanne K. English
Daylanne K. English is associate professor of English at Macalester College. She is the author of Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance.

Reviews for Each Hour Redeem
"Daylanne K. English offers, in exemplary fashion, an analysis both formal and thematic of a small range of texts, fully applicable to the entire range of African American letters. This volume makes a significant contribution to a number of critical conversations in progress that have never so profitably been brought into contact with one another." —Aldon Lynn Nielsen, author of Integral ... Read more

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