Reading Race Relationally : : Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead's Novels / / Marlon Lieber.
What does it mean to write African American literature after the end of legalized segregation? In this study of Colson Whitehead's first six novels, Marlon Lieber argues that this question has permeated the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's writing since his 1999 debut The Intuitionist. Draw...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lettre
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reading / Race / Relationally -- 1. Reading the Past, Writing the Future: The Intuitionist -- 2. Ab/uses of History: John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt -- 3. (Post-Black) Bildungsroman or Novel of (Black Bourgeois) Manners? Sag Harbor -- 4. Money, Abstraction, Cultural Production: John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt Revisited -- 5. The Masterless Ocean: Zone One -- Conclusion: To Escape the Fundamental Principles of Your Existence -- Works Cited |
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| Summary: | What does it mean to write African American literature after the end of legalized segregation? In this study of Colson Whitehead's first six novels, Marlon Lieber argues that this question has permeated the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's writing since his 1999 debut The Intuitionist. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's relational sociology and Marxist critical theory, Lieber shows that Whitehead's oeuvre articulates the tension between the persistent presence of racism and transformations in the United States' class structure, which reveals new modes of abjection. At the same time, Whitehead imagines forms of writing that strive to transcend the histories of domination objectified in social structures and embodied in the form of habitus. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9783839463468 9783111319292 9783111318912 9783111319186 9783111318264 9783111024950 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783839463468?locatt=mode:legacy |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Marlon Lieber. |