TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lieber,Marlon
ED  - Frankfurt Forschungszentrum Historische Geisteswissenschaften
TI  - Reading Race Relationally: Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead's Novels 
T2  - Lettre
SN  - 9783839463468
AV  - PS3573.H4768 Z73 2023
U1  - 813.609 23/eng/20230417
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - African American Literature
KW  - America
KW  - Colson Whitehead
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Pierre Bourdieu
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Race and Racism
KW  - Racism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Reading / Race / Relationally --; 1. Reading the Past, Writing the Future: The Intuitionist --; 2. Ab/uses of History: John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt --; 3. (Post-Black) Bildungsroman or Novel of (Black Bourgeois) Manners? Sag Harbor --; 4. Money, Abstraction, Cultural Production: John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt Revisited --; 5. The Masterless Ocean: Zone One --; Conclusion: To Escape the Fundamental Principles of Your Existence --; Works Cited; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839463468?locatt=mode:legacy
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