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Each Hour RedeemTime and Justice in African American Literature$
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Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature

Daylanne K. English

Print publication date: 2013

Print ISBN-13: 9780816679898

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679898.001.0001

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“Temporal Damage”: Pragmatism and Plessy in African American Novels, 1896–1902

“Temporal Damage”: Pragmatism and Plessy in African American Novels, 1896–1902

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Each Hour Redeem
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Daylanne K. English

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University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816679898.003.0003

Oliver Wendell Holmes’s most famous pragmatist legal saying was that “the life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.” I argue that Hopkins, Chesnutt and Dunbar published novels in the wake of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that challenged American philosophical pragmatism by representing racially specific experiences of law and time.

Keywords:   African American literature, Time, Timekeeping, Strategic anachronism, Strategic presentism, Citizenship, Justice, Political fictions, Legal history, Pragmatism

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