Reading Race Relationally Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead's Novels
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ArtikelSerie: Utgivningsinformation: transcript Verlag transcript Verlag [Imprint] 2023Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (270 p.)Innehållstyp: - text
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- Biography, Literature and Literary studies
- Literature: history and criticism
- Literary studies: general
- History and Archaeology
- History
- History: specific events and topics
- National liberation and independence
- African American Literature
- America
- American Studies
- Colson Whitehead
- D Biography
- DS Literature
- DSB Literary studies
- Literary Studies
- Literature
- Literature and Literary studies
- N History and Archaeology
- NH History
- NHT History
- NHTR National liberation and independence
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Postcolonialism
- Race and Racism
- Racism
- general
- history and criticism
- specific events and topics
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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.
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