“Seize the Time!”
“Seize the Time!”
Strategic Presentism in the Black Arts Movement
Beginning with the under-studied Dasein poets, this chapter argues that during the Black Arts era, African American writers represented black people as fully of their times, partly by connecting the literary with the musical. A presentism founded on black identity and simultaneity (Heideggerian dasein, or “being there”) emerged, a presentism similar but not identical to that of the Harlem Renaissance.
Keywords: African American literature, Time, Timekeeping, Strategic anachronism, Strategic presentism, Citizenship, Justice, Political fictions, Legal history, Pragmatism
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