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Colson Whitehead : the postracial voice of contemporary literature /
"From his first novel, The Intuitionist, in 1999, Colson Whitehead has produced fiction that brilliantly blurs genre and cultural lines to demonstrate the universal angst and integral bonds shared by all Americans. By neglecting to mention a character's racial heritage, Whitehead challenge...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman and Littlefield,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Verticality: allegorical symbols of racial and national uplift
- Lila Mae, the invisible woman of The Intuitionist
- Piercing the veil: passing, color blindness, and postracialism
- The American spirit: John Henry's legendary and epic stature among folk heroes such as Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan
- Heroism and masculinity in the industrial age and the digital age
- Commercial enslavement and liberation in the industrial age versus the digital age
- Apex: the metaphorical bandage that masks but never heals
- New York: a postracial dream realized or an American dream deferred
- The Colossus of New York: a tribute to gothic urban spaces
- Subways, rush hour, and downtown: New Yorkers lead quiet lives of desperation
- Social and philosophical divide: the intersection of class and race for an adolescent and adult Colson Whitehead
- Wright and Whitehead: black hunger in the South and black faces in the Hamptons
- Zone One: postapocalyptic zombies take over Manhattan in the age of nostalgia, despair, and consumption.