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1	HISTORICAL INTIMACY: CONTEMPORARY RECLAMATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE DRAMA, POETRY, AND FICTION OF SUZAN-LORI PARKS, NATASHA TRETHEWAY, AND COLSON WHITEHEAD Foster, Benjamin Thomas 01 August 2015 (has links) Three contemporary authors – 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 Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, these authors comment on historical representation through such symbols as iconic figures like Abraham Lincoln, photographs, and elevators as starting points to explore the possibility of an independent space for African American history. Rather than remarking on just the representation of the artifact, however, the authors enter a conversation on how history is remembered and experienced. Parks, Trethewey, and Whitehead each form their own expression on historical representation; in each case, their works address the ability, or inability, to achieve historical intimacy amidst a push back from hegemonic narratives in the public eye. Historical intimacy, as the leading concept of the dissertation, refers to developing a close proximity to history not as a mere representation but as lived experience. Parks sees historical insight developing only through brief moments of intimate contact, if at all. Trethewey imagines personal, even sensual, familiarity with the subjects of her poems as a way of breaking through social frames and learning to connect with the past. Whitehead works through paradoxes to dissolve representational patterns of discourse, like verticality, and reach for a post-rational space wherein both open historical possibility, which stresses self-reflexivity, and a foundation in a “real,” experienced history unlock the opportunity for the construction of an intimate history. Although no author presents historical intimacy as an achieved goal, their works suggest varying degrees of potential and connection. Colson Whitehead Hegemonic Rhetoric Historical Intimacy Natasha Trethewey Suzan-Lori Parks
2	The Living Dead in the Long Downturn: Im/Possible Communism and Zombie Narrative Form Lieber, Marlon 01 February 2021 (has links) No description available. info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/320 ddc:320
3	Race, Space, and Narrative: Spatial Reading and Racial Literacy in Contemporary Multifocal American Novels Erika Gotfredson (16558647) 18 July 2023 (has links) <p>This dissertation identifies four American novels published between 2016 and 2018—Colson Whitehead’s <em>The Underground Railroad</em> (2016), Jesmyn Ward’s <em>Sing, Unburied, Sing</em> (2017), Celeste Ng’s <em>Little Fires Everywhere</em> (2017), and Tommy Orange’s <em>There There</em> (2018)—that deploy a multifocal narrative structure to facilitate readers’ ethical engagement with their content. Specifically, these novels’ narrative structures guide readers through spatial reading, or reading across numerous characters’ perspectives of a shared space instead of with the grain of chronological time. Contextualizing these novels within the nation’s shifting racial beliefs initiated by the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and the election of Donald Trump in 2016, I argue that, in these novels, multifocalization and the spatial reading it activates dismantle the cognitive schemas and cultural discourses that sustain unjust racial ideologies. Spatial reading engages readers in acts of rereading and contextualization that diverge from the practices of generalization and erasure affiliated with myths of racial progress and the rhetoric of colorblindness, and it accordingly builds readers’ capacity to acknowledge racism as systemic, structural, and multifaceted. By emphasizing how each novel facilitates readers’ racial literacy, this project diverges from and complicates the widespread belief that the humanities contribute to antiracism by building readerly empathy, instead championing how the humanities impart upon readers the tools to analyze and critique systemic racism. </p> North American literature The Underground Railroad Sing, Unburied, Sing Little Fires Everywhere There There Colson Whitehead Jesmyn Ward Celeste Ng Tommy Orange Racial Literacy Spatial Reading Multifocalization American Literature
4	Historieskrivning i den samtida historiska romanen : En läsning av Sarah Waters The night watch och Colson Whiteheads The underground railroad Ehn Svensson, Mikaela January 2020 (has links) It has always been important to study history. But what we can’t forget is that there’s more than one way of doing so. One of those is literature. In this thesis I will therefore study two contemporary historical novels: The Night Watch by Sarah Waters and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. The aim is to explore how they portray different kinds of historical experiences and how that may relate to questions that are relevant even in a contemporary context. Because both novels have an interestning relationship with time and space, I’m going to use the russian literary theorist Micheal Bachtins concept of the chronotope to explore how time and space operates and relate to eachother. In the end, this thesis also aims to show that literature can be a valuable object to study for those that are intererested in histiography. historiography the historical novel contempary literature Sarah Waters The Night Watch Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad Michail Bachtin chronotope time and space historiografi den historiska romanen samtida litteratur Sarah Waters The night watch Colson Whitehead The underground railroad Michail Bachtin kronotop tid och rum History of Ideas Idé- och lärdomshistoria
5	(Re)Writing Apocalypse: Race, Gender, and Radical Change in Black Apocalyptic Fiction Calbert, Tonisha Marie January 2020 (has links) No description available. African American Studies African Americans African Literature American Literature Black History Black Studies Ethnic Studies Gender Literature Minority and Ethnic Groups Modern Literature apocalypse afrofuturism black speculative fiction science fiction speculative fiction Octavia Butler Nnedi Okorafor Colson Whitehead apocalyptic fiction Parable of the Sower Parable of the Talents Who Fears Death The Book of Phoenix Zone One

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