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005			20240726105245.0
008			201212s2021 scu ob 001 0 eng
010			_a2020055828
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dP@U _dYDX _dOCLCO _dNT _dJSTOR
020			_a9781643361758 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
042			_apcc
050	0	4	_aPS3573 _b.U534 2021
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aMaus, Derek C., _e1
245	1	0	_aUnderstanding Colson Whitehead /Derek C. Maus.
250			_aRevisedition. and expanded edition.
300			_a1 online resource (162 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aUnderstanding contemporary American literature
504			_a2
505	0	0	_aUnderstanding Colson Whitehead -- _tThe intuitionist -- _tJohn Henry days -- _tApex hides the hurt -- _tWhitehead's "New York trilogy" : The colossus of New York, Sag Harbor, and Zone one -- _tThe Underground Railroad and The Nickel boys.
520	0		_a"An inviting point of entrance into the truth seeking, genre defying novels of the award-winning author. Although two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead ardently resists overarching categorizations of his work, Derek C. Maus argues in this volume that Whitehead's books are linked by a careful balance between adherence to and violation of the wisdom of past generations. Whitehead bids readers to come along with him on challenging, often open-ended literary excursions designed to reexamine accepted notions of truth. Understanding Colson Whitehead unravels the parallel structures found within Whitehead's fiction from his 1999 novel The Intuitionist through 2019's The Nickel Boys. In his choice of literary forms, Whitehead attempts to revitalize the limiting formulas to which they have been reduced by first imitating and then violating the conventions of those genres and subgenres. Whitehead similarly tests subject matter, again imitating and then satirizing various forms of conventional wisdom as a means of calling out unexamined, ignored, and/or malevolent aspects of American culture. Although only one of many subjects that Whitehead addresses, race often takes a place of centrality in his works and, as such, serves as the prime example of how Whitehead asks his readers to revisit their assumptions about meanings and values. By jumbling the literary formulas of the detective novel, the heroic folktale, the coming-of-age story, the zombie apocalypse, and the slave narrative, Whitehead reveals the flaws and shortcomings of many of the long-lasting stories through which Americans have defined themselves. Some of the stories Whitehead focuses on are explicitly literary in nature, but he more frequently directs his attention toward the 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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600	1	0	_aWhitehead, Colson, _d1969- _xCriticism and interpretation.
600	1	1	_aWhitehead, Colson, _d1969- _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xAfrican American authors _xHistory and criticism.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2677720&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell