In this volume, Kimberly Fain discusses how Whitehead's novels reconstruct the American identity to be inclusive rather than exclusive, thus broadening the scope of who is considered an American.
In this volume, Kimberly Fain discusses how Whitehead's novels reconstruct the American identity to be inclusive rather than exclusive, thus broadening the scope of who is considered an American.
Kimberly Fain, JD, MA, is an adjunct professor at Texas Southern University, Houston Community College, and an associate editor of World Literary Review.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Intuitionist Chapter 1 Verticality: Allegorical Symbols of Racial and National Uplift Chapter 2 Lila Mae the Invisible Woman of The Intuitionist Chapter 3 Piercing the Veil: Passing, Colorblindness, and Postracialism Chapter 4 The American Spirit: John Henry's Legendary and Epic Stature Amongst Folk Heroes Such as Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan Chapter 5 Heroism and Masculinity in the Industrial Age and the Digital Age Chapter 6 Commercial Enslavement and Liberation in the Industrial Age versus the Digital Age Chapter 7 Apex: The Metaphorical Bandage That Masks but Never Heals Part II: The Colossus of New York Chapter 8 New York: A Postracial Dream Realized or an American Dream Deferred Chapter 9 The Colossus of New York: A Tribute to Gothic Urban Spaces Chapter 10 Subways, Rush Hour, and Downtown: New Yorkers Lead Quiet Lives of Desperation Part III: Sag Harbor & Zone One Chapter 11 Social and Philosophical Divide: The Intersection of Class and Race for an Adolescent and Adult Colson Whitehead Chapter 12 Wright and Whitehead: Black Hunger in the South and Black Faces in the Hamptons Chapter 13 Colson Whitehead's Zone One: Post-apocalyptic Zombies Takeover Manhattan in the Age of Nostalgia, Despair and Consumption Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Intuitionist Chapter 1 Verticality: Allegorical Symbols of Racial and National Uplift Chapter 2 Lila Mae the Invisible Woman of The Intuitionist Chapter 3 Piercing the Veil: Passing, Colorblindness, and Postracialism Chapter 4 The American Spirit: John Henry's Legendary and Epic Stature Amongst Folk Heroes Such as Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan Chapter 5 Heroism and Masculinity in the Industrial Age and the Digital Age Chapter 6 Commercial Enslavement and Liberation in the Industrial Age versus the Digital Age Chapter 7 Apex: The Metaphorical Bandage That Masks but Never Heals Part II: The Colossus of New York Chapter 8 New York: A Postracial Dream Realized or an American Dream Deferred Chapter 9 The Colossus of New York: A Tribute to Gothic Urban Spaces Chapter 10 Subways, Rush Hour, and Downtown: New Yorkers Lead Quiet Lives of Desperation Part III: Sag Harbor & Zone One Chapter 11 Social and Philosophical Divide: The Intersection of Class and Race for an Adolescent and Adult Colson Whitehead Chapter 12 Wright and Whitehead: Black Hunger in the South and Black Faces in the Hamptons Chapter 13 Colson Whitehead's Zone One: Post-apocalyptic Zombies Takeover Manhattan in the Age of Nostalgia, Despair and Consumption Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author
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