Description: "This fresh perspective on Whitehead’s first six novels is a vital contribution to ongoing discussions. Reading Race Relationally should be of considerable interest to researchers of contemporary fiction, especially to those following ongoing debates on African American literature and its very concept, as well as class in contemporary fiction."- Valentina López Liendo Reading Race Relationally:…
About Writing Events CV Reading Race Relationally: Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead’s Novels
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’ c
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com