Literature & Literary Studies
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In this revised and updated edition of Understanding Colson Whitehead, Derek C. Maus unravels the parallel structures found within Whitehead’s books from his 1999 debut The Intuitionist through 2019’s The Nickel Boys, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Although it is only one of many subjects that Whitehead addresses, race is often central to his work. It serves as a prime example of Whitehead’s attempt to prompt his readers into revisiting their assumptions about meanings and values. In addition to evoking such explicitly literary storytelling traditions, Whitehead also directs attention toward other interrelated historical and cultural processes that influence how race, class, gender, education, social status, and other categories of identity determine what an individual supposedly can and cannot do.
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Author Biography
Derek C. Maus teaches contemporary literature at the State University of New York at Potsdam and is the author of Jesting in Earnest: Percival Everett and Menippean Satire and Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire.
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- Publisher University of South Carolina Press
- Publication Date April 2021
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781643361734 / 1643361734
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 59.99 USD
- Pages184
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- EditionRevised & Expanded Edition
- Copyright Year2021
- Dimensions9X6 inches
- SeriesUnderstanding Contemporary American Literature
