Understanding Colson Whitehead

An inviting point of entrance into the truth seeking, genre defying novels of the award-winning author

About the author

Derek C. Maus teaches contemporary literature at the State University of New York at Potsdam. He is also the author of Jesting in Earnest: Percival Everett and Menippean Satire and Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire. He is also the editor or coeditor of Conversations with Colson Whitehead; Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights; Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley's Fiction; and Angry Rain: A Memoir by Maurice Kenny.

Summary

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 Maus argues that they are linked by their scepticism toward the ostensible wisdom inherited from past generations.

Product details

• Authors: Derek C Maus, Derek C. Maus
• Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781643361741
• ISBN: 978-1-64336-174-1
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 226 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 250 g
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies