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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"colson whitehead"”.
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HISTORICAL INTIMACY: CONTEMPORARY RECLAMATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE DRAMA, POETRY, AND FICTION OF SUZAN-LORI PARKS, NATASHA TRETHEWAY, AND COLSON WHITEHEAD
… – Suzan-Lori Parks, Natasha Trethewey, and Colson Whitehead – within the African American Literary Tradition explore relationships to history in light of a dominant rhetoric that represents African American history through a white, hegemonic lens. In Parks’ The America Play, Trethewey’s …
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The Politics of Victimhood and Representation in Crime Literature
… contemporary authors, namely Louise Erdrich and Colson Whitehead, challenge these limitations of victimhood. I hope that such a study not only critiques the framework that allows certain identities a space of visibility while denying that access to others, but that it also highlights the ways in …
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Daniel: A Novel With Accompanying Critical Dissertation Exploring Child Abuse in Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys and Barry Hines' A Kestrel for a Knave.
… that handle similar themes: The Nickel Boys (Colson Whitehead), and A Kestrel for a Knave (Barry Hines). The portrayal of masculinity, agency, adult/child power dynamics, resilience, victimhood and culpability within literary fiction is considered in both the novel and the accompanying …
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“The Sunlit Prison of the American Dream”: Representing Carcerality in Contemporary American Fiction
… through selected works by Jesmyn Ward and Colson Whitehead, exploring how the genre of the slave narrative was shaped by its historical context and how it has influenced contemporary writing about prisons. I then discuss the impact of incarceration on family units, as seen in Tayari Jones’s …
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FROM RIVER ROAD PLANTATIONS TO THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: BRINGING THE TRUE STORY OF AMERICAN SLAVERY TO THE PRESENT RACIAL DIVIDE
… using a visit to five historical plantations and Colson Whitehead’s <em>The Underground Railroad</em> to illustrate the persistence of injustice beyond slavery to Jim Crow laws, color-blind rhetoric, and mass incarceration. At each plantation, I encounter a varied history of slavery and find that …