English, Daylanne K.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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.

Subjects:

• American literature — African American authors — History and criticism.
• Time in literature.
• Justice in literature.

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