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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1643361759 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781643361758 |
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4034314 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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OCoLC |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PS3573.H4768 Z78 2021 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Maus, Derek C |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Understanding Colson Whitehead / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Derek C. Maus. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
Revised and expanded edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Columbia, South Carolina: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
The University of South Carolina Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
[2021] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
1 online resource (162 pages) |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Understanding contemporary American literature |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Literary Reference Center Collection Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 30, 2021). |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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Article Abstract: "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"-- Provided by publisher |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT HEADINGS |
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Whitehead, Colson, 1969- - Criticism and interpretation |
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Whitehead, Colson, 1969- |
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American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
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LITERARY CRITICISM - American - General |
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American literature - African American authors |
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<a href="https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2677720">https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2677720</a> |
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Book, Standard Loan (4 weeks) |
