Understanding Colson Whitehead

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    • Maus, Derek C.

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Understanding Colson Whitehead

Derek C. Maus

(Understanding contemporary American literature)

University of South Carolina Press, c2021

Revised and expanded ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "An inviting point of entrance into the truth seeking, genre defying novels of the award-winning author. Although two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead ardently resists overarching categorizations of his work, Derek C. Maus argues in this volume that Whitehead's books are linked by a careful balance between adherence to and violation of the wisdom of past generations. Whitehead bids readers to come along with him on challenging, often open-ended literary excursions designed to reexamine accepted notions of truth. Understanding Colson Whitehead unravels the parallel structures found within Whitehead's fiction from his 1999 novel The Intuitionist through 2019's The Nickel Boys. In his choice of literary forms, Whitehead attempts to revitalize the limiting formulas to which they have been reduced by first imitating and then violating the conventions of those genres and subgenres. Whitehead similarly tests subject matter, again imitating and then satirizing various forms of conventional wisdom

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  • 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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