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Colson Whitehead : the postracial voice of contemporary literature /
Table of Contents: “…Verticality: allegorical symbols of racial and national uplift -- Lila Mae, the invisible woman of The Intuitionist -- Piercing the veil: passing, color blindness, and postracialism -- The American spirit: John Henry's legendary and epic stature among folk heroes such as Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan -- Heroism and masculinity in the industrial age and the digital age -- Commercial enslavement and liberation in the industrial age versus the digital age -- Apex: the metaphorical bandage that masks but never heals -- New York: a postracial dream realized or an American dream deferred -- The Colossus of New York: a tribute to gothic urban spaces -- Subways, rush hour, and downtown: New Yorkers lead quiet lives of desperation -- Social and philosophical divide: the intersection of class and race for an adolescent and adult Colson Whitehead -- Wright and Whitehead: black hunger in the South and black faces in the Hamptons -- Zone One: postapocalyptic zombies take over Manhattan in the age of nostalgia, despair, and consumption.…”
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Understanding Colson Whitehead /
Table of Contents: “…Understanding Colson Whitehead -- The intuitionist -- John Henry days -- Apex hides the hurt -- Whitehead's "New York trilogy" : The colossus of New York, Sag Harbor, and Zone one -- The Underground Railroad and The Nickel boys.…”
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Conversations with Colson Whitehead /
Table of Contents: “…Eavesdropping / Walter Mosley -- Colson Whitehead / Suzan Sherman -- Writing home / Evette Porter -- Educating the imagination: Colson Whitehead / Matthew Sharpe -- Post office to unveil Colson Whitehead stamp / 'Dave' -- New eclecticism: an interview with Colson Whitehead / Linda Selzer -- Marie Mockett interviews Colson Whitehead / Marie Mockett -- Who we are now: a conversation with Colson Whitehead / Jeremiah Chamberlin -- Colson Whitehead interview / Corban Goble -- An interview with Colson Whitehead / Rob Spillman -- An interview with Colson Whitehead / Robbie Baden -- Colson Whitehead on his new zombie novel, zone one, destroying New York, and apocalyptic capitalism / Alyssa Rosenberg -- Colson Whitehead on sandwiches, bunker songs, and the zombie apocalypse -- Melissa Locker -- The rumpus interview with Colson Whitehead / Nancy Smith -- Colson Whitehead: each book an antidote / Nikesh Shukla -- The confession book: Colson Whitehead / Noah Charney -- Colson Whitehead: Oprah, American history, and the power of a female protagonist / Stephenie Harrison -- In conversation with Colson Whitehead / Boris Kachka / 2016 -- Colson Whitehead's subterranean journey / Hilary Leichter -- A literary chameleon / Jesse McCarthy -- 'If you don't have hope, then why go on?'…”
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Playing with expectations : postmodern narrative choices and the African American novel /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Ishmael Reed -- Charles Johnson -- Toni Morrison -- Colson Whitehead -- Conclusion.…”
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Writing the future of Black America : literature of the hip-hop generation /
Table of Contents: “…Trey Ellis -- Jake Lamar -- Colson Whitehead -- Paul Beatty -- Danzy Senna -- Allison Joseph and Terrence Hayes -- Suzan-Lori Parks.…”
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Progress compromised : social movements and the individual in African American postmodern fiction /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Unraveling cultural notions: black progress in Colson Whitehead's The intuitionist -- Restless questioning: anguish and the ethos of black struggle in Alice Walker's Meridian -- Resisting consensus: class-driven politics in John Oliver Killens's The cotillion -- Self-renewal through introspection: endless journeys, endless becoming in Toni Morrison's Tar baby -- Conclusion.…”
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The racial railroad /
Table of Contents: “…Tracks Across the Land : Visualizing the Railroad in Settler Colonialism -- The Chinaman's Crime -- Telling Stories : The Transcontinental Railroad as Chinese American Narrative -- Remembrance and Reenactment at Promontory Summit -- The Jim Crow Train in African American Literature -- Riding the Blind -- Speculative Trains : Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad -- Fugitive Trains -- Coda: The Train Will Not Save Us.…”
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Satirical novelists /
Table of Contents: “…Burroughs -- Cyrano de Bergerac -- Peter De Vries -- Margaret Drabble -- Henry Fielding -- Joseph Heller -- Gish Jen -- Diane Johnson -- Alison Lurie -- Mary McCarthy -- Vladimir Nabokov -- George Orwell -- Dawn Powell -- Francine Prose -- Francois Rabelais -- Laurence Sterne -- Jonathan Swift -- Voltaire -- Kurt Vonnegut -- Evelyn Waugh -- Fay Weldon -- H.G. Wells -- Colson Whitehead -- Tom Wolfe.…”
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Angry planet : decolonial fiction and the American third world /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Messages from the angry planet -- Terraforming the New World: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and Colson Whitehead's The institutionist -- First world problems: John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Third world liberation: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead and Héctor Tobar's The tattooed soldier -- The fourth world resurgent: Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart and Octavia Butler's Parable of the sower -- Conclusion: The angry planet in the anthropocene.…”
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African American culture /
Table of Contents: “…Gaines -- Chester Himes -- Zora Neale Hurston -- William Melvin Kelley -- Nella Larsen -- Harper Lee -- Claude McKay -- Terry McMillan -- Toni Morrison -- Gloria Naylor -- Ishmael Reed -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Alice Walker -- Colson Whitehead -- John Edgar Wideman -- John A. Williams -- Richard Wright -- Frank Yerby.…”
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