1st Edition
Colson Whitehead Beyond the Novel Literary Authority, Authorial Performance, and Canonization
Introduction; Section One: Navigating the African American Writing Tradition; 1. Navigating a Literary Debut: The Intuitionist (1999); 2. Experimentation, History, and Plurality of Experience: John Henry Days (2001); 3. Ironic Displacement and Historical (Un)Certainties: Apex Hides the Hurt (2006); Section Two: Drawing from Genre; 4. Coming of Age as an Open-Ended Process: Sag Harbor (2008); 5. Literary Zombies: Zone One (2011); Section Three: Prize-winning Fiction and Cultural Visibility; 6. Kaleidoscopic History: The Underground Railroad (2016); 7. Whitehead as "America's Storyteller": The Nickel Boys (2019); Conclusion
Biography
Valentina López Liendo is a postdoctoral researcher in the DFG funded Collaborative Research Center "Home(s)" (SFB 1671). She earned her PhD in American Literature at Heidelberg University as part of the Research Training Group “Authority and Trust”. Valentina majored in English Studies and East Asian Studies at Osaka and Heidelberg Universities, before earning an M.A. in English and Transcultural studies. Her current work examines negotiations and moral topographies of belonging in contemporary U.S. literature, with a particular interest in their socio-institutional context.
