Reading Race Relationally
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Reading Race Relationally

Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead's Novels

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Reading Race Relationally

Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead's Novels

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
transcript Verlag
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9783837663464
eBook ISBN
9783839463468
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American History
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Reading | Race | Relationally
  5. 1. Reading the Past, Writing the Future: The Intuitionist
  6. 2. Ab/uses of History: John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt
  7. 3. (Post‐Black) Bildungsroman or Novel of (Black Bourgeois) Manners? Sag Harbor
  8. 4. Money, Abstraction, Cultural Production: John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt Revisited
  9. 5. The Masterless Ocean: Zone One
  10. Conclusion: To Escape the Fundamental Principles of Your Existence
  11. Works Cited