Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature

by Daylanne K. English

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816679908
• ISBN13: 9780816679904
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"