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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aMaus, Derek C., _eauthor. _915622
245	1	0	_aUnderstanding Colson Whitehead / _cDerek C. Maus.
250			_aRevised and expanded edition.
264		1	_aColumbia, South Carolina : _bThe University of South Carolina Press, _c[2021]
300			_a1 online resource (162 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aUnderstanding contemporary American literature
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aUnderstanding 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.
520			_a"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 as a means of calling out unexamined, ignored, and/or malevolent aspects of American culture. Although only one of many subjects that Whitehead addresses, race often takes a place of centrality in his works and, as such, serves as the prime example of how Whitehead asks his readers to revisit their assumptions about meanings and values. By jumbling the literary formulas of the detective novel, the heroic folktale, the coming-of-age story, the zombie apocalypse, and the slave narrative, Whitehead reveals the flaws and shortcomings of many of the long-lasting stories through which Americans have defined themselves. Some of the stories Whitehead focuses on are explicitly literary in nature, but he more frequently directs his attention toward the historical and cultural processes that influence how race, class, gender, education, social status, and other categories of identity determine what an individual supposedly can and cannot do"-- _cProvided by publisher
588	0		_aOnline resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 30, 2021).
590			_aWorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050
600	1	0	_aWhitehead, Colson, _d1969- _xCriticism and interpretation. _915623
600	1	1	_aWhitehead, Colson, _d1969- _xCriticism and interpretation. _915623
600	1	7	_aWhitehead, Colson, _d1969- _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00414921 _915624
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xAfrican American authors _xHistory and criticism. _95649
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM _xAmerican _xGeneral. _2bisacsh _99574
650		7	_aAmerican literature _xAfrican American authors. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00807114 _95659
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411635 _95662
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aMaus, Derek C. _tUnderstanding Colson Whitehead. _bRevised and expanded edition. _dColumbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2021] _z9781643361734 _w(DLC) 2020055827
830		0	_aUnderstanding contemporary American literature. _915625
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