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John Henry Days

Author : Colson Whitehead
Publisher : Anchor
Release Date : 2009-06-03
ISBN 10 : 9780307486677
Pages : 400 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (486 downloads)

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The Crisis

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Release Date : 2001-07
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 76 pages
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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Works

Author : Geoff Hamilton
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 9781438129709
Pages : 433 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (129 downloads)

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Colson Whitehead

Author : Kimberly Fain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-05-07
ISBN 10 : 9781442250147
Pages : 193 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (25 downloads)

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Understanding Colson Whitehead

Author : Derek C. Maus
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2021-04-07
ISBN 10 : 9781643361758
Pages : 172 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (361 downloads)

Download Understanding Colson Whitehead PDF Format Full Free by Derek C. Maus and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inviting point of entrance into the truth seeking, genre defying novels of the award-winning author In 2020 Colson Whitehead became the youngest recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Although Whitehead's widely divergent books complicate overarching categorization, Derek C. Maus argues that they are linked by their skepticism toward the ostensible wisdom inherited from past generations and the various forms of "stories" that transmit it. Whitehead, best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Underground Railroad, bids readers to accompany him on challenging, often open-ended literary excursions designed to reexamine—and frequently defy—accepted notions of truth. Understanding Colson Whitehead 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. By first imitating and then violating their conventions, Whitehead attempts to transcend the limits of the formulas of the genres in which he seems to write. Whitehead similarly tests subject matter, again imitating and then satirizing various forms of conventional wisdom as a means of calling out unexamined, ignored, or malevolent aspects of American culture. 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. By upending the literary formulas of the detective novel, the heroic folktale, the coming-of-age story, the zombie apocalypse, the slave narrative, and historical fiction, Whitehead reveals the flaws and shortcomings by which Americans have defined themselves. 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.

(Re)writing and Remembering

Author : James Dalrymple
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016-02-08
ISBN 10 : 9781443888707
Pages : 175 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (888 downloads)

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Black Cultural Mythology

Author : Christel N. Temple
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2020-04-01
ISBN 10 : 9781438477893
Pages : 372 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (477 downloads)

Download Black Cultural Mythology PDF Format Full Free by Christel N. Temple and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies. Winner of the 2021 CLA Book Award presented by the College Language Association Black Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of "mythology" from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its scope to illuminate the relationship between legacies of heroic survival, cultural memory, and creative production in the African diaspora. Christel N. Temple comprehensively surveys more than two hundred years of figures, moments, ideas, and canonical works by such visionaries as Maria Stewart, Richard Wright, Colson Whitehead, and Edwidge Danticat to map an expansive yet broadly overlooked intellectual tradition of Black cultural mythology and to provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing this tradition. In so doing, she at once reorients and stabilizes the emergent field of Africana cultural memory studies, while also staging a much broader intervention by challenging scholars across disciplines—from literary and cultural studies, history, sociology, and beyond—to embrace a more organic vocabulary to articulate the vitality of the inheritance of survival. Christel N. Temple is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her books include Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise; Literary Spaces: Introduction to Comparative Black Literature; and Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism.

The Cambridge History of African American Literature

Author : Maryemma Graham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-03
ISBN 10 : 9780521872171
Pages : 861 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (872 downloads)

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The Colossus of New York

Author : Colson Whitehead
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-02-01
ISBN 10 : 9780708898772
Pages : 176 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (898 downloads)

Download The Colossus of New York PDF Format Full Free by Colson Whitehead and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in - or spent time - in the greatest of American cities. A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captures the city's inner and outer landscapes in a series of vignettes, meditations, and personal memories. Colson Whitehead conveys with almost uncanny immediacy the feelings and thoughts of longtime residents and of newcomers who dream of making it their home; of those who have conquered its challenges; and of those who struggle against its cruelties. Whitehead's style is as multilayered and multifarious as New York itself: Switching from third person, to first person, to second person, he weaves individual voices into a jazzy musical composition that perfectly reflects the way we experience the city. There is a funny, knowing riff on what it feels like to arrive in New York for the first time; a lyrical meditation on how the city is transformed by an unexpected rain shower; and a wry look at the ferocious battle that is commuting. The plaintive notes of the lonely and dispossessed resound in one passage, while another captures those magical moments when the city seems to be talking directly to you, inviting you to become one with its rhythms. The Colossus of New York is a remarkable portrait of life in the big city. Ambitious in scope, gemlike in its details, it is at once an unparalleled tribute to New York and the ideal introduction to one of the most exciting writers working today.

Fine Day, John Henry vertical file

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Release Date : 2014
ISBN 10 : OCLC:947027356
Pages : pages
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Indiana from Frontier to Industrial Commonwealth

Author : John Donald Barnhart
Publisher :
Release Date : 1954
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105013607564
Pages : 832 pages
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Apex Hides the Hurt

Author : Colson Whitehead
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-03-01
ISBN 10 : 9780708898741
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (898 downloads)

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The Insurance Year Book

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Release Date : 1891
ISBN 10 : WISC:89095809018
Pages : 798 pages
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Alumni Oxonienses

Author : University of Oxford
Publisher :
Release Date : 1888
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015021270460
Pages : 414 pages
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Polk's Baltimore (Maryland) City Directory

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Release Date : 1899
ISBN 10 : HARVARD:HN4HDN
Pages : 2084 pages
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Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman: Opposition in Dublin and London. October1855-March 1857

Author : John Henry Newman
Publisher :
Release Date : 1967
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015081718499
Pages : 628 pages
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Cassette Books

Author : Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
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ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105122903383
Pages : pages
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