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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.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 270
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Lettre
Publication Date:
30 May 2023
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837663464
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
»Liebers monograph enriches the growing scholarship on Colson Whiteheadwhile shedding light on hitherto less explored issues in his works, thus providingexciting new insights on how contemporary authors engage with the categories ofclass and race.«
Marlon Lieber works as Assistant Professor of North American literature and culture at the Institute of English and American Studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, where he received his PhD in 2018.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 7
Introduction: Reading / Race / Relationally 11
1. Reading the Past, Writing the Future: The Intuitionist 43
2. Ab/uses of History: John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt 77
3. (Post-Black) Bildungsroman or Novel of (Black Bourgeois) Manners? Sag Harbor 113
4. Money, Abstraction, Cultural Production: John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt Revisited 143
5. The Masterless Ocean: Zone One 177
Conclusion: To Escape the Fundamental Principles of Your Existence 211
Works Cited 241