...Ezra Dan Feldman Abstract The form and formlessness of histories, regions, races, ballads, fictions, lists, characters, and mountains are among the topics of concern in Colson Whitehead's John Henry Days , and they pose a real challenge to conveying what this novel is like. Caroline Levine's Forms...

... of the most generative sites of potential collaboration between criticism and the novel. Circumscribing this potential, the article discovers three distinct but imbricated paranoid styles in Colson Whitehead's first novel, The Intuitionist : the racialized paranoid imperative, paranoid double consciousness...

...Jeffrey Allen Tucker Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist (1999) tells the story of a black female elevator inspector who “intuits” the machines' safety. The protagonist searches for both those responsible for the apparent sabotage of an elevator for which she was responsible and the blueprints...

... like, I outline a theory of the critique immanent to the literary form of the novel itself, and I conclude with a brief reading of a recent novel as critique, Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad . critique dialectic postcritique Marxism The president of the Modern Language...

... Literary History 20 ( 2008 ): 304 – 16 . Warren Kenneth W. “Taking the Measure of the Black Atlantic.” States of Emergency: The Object of American Studies . Chapel Hill : U of North Carolina P , 2009 . 116 – 23 . Whitehead Colson . “The Year of Living Postracially.” New...

... the late fiction of Don DeLillo through novels by Charles Yu, Ben Lerner, Jennifer Egan, Colson Whitehead, Kiese Laymon, and others. DeLillo has always been a hard-to-peg figure in postwar US literary history. Once hailed as a postmodernist, he was subsequently reconfigured as a “systems novelist...

..., Gerald Vizenor, Colson Whitehead, and Karen Tei Yamashita. Literary criticism was initially slow to keep pace with the shift in protocols of racial representation, due to the lingering power of the paradigm of corrective mimesis. Although critics widely noted the explosion of speculative and fabulist...

... satisfies both impulses. Although it is indeed an examination of postapocalyptic fiction, from the eighth-century Greek poet Hesiod's work to Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1826) and all the way up to Colson Whitehead's Zone One (2011), the book is resolutely optimistic. Payne is interested in “large...

..., exemplify the dependence of postindustrial transformation upon the manipulation of data. Finally, in wonderfully counterintuitive readings of Whitehead's Zone One and Ben Marcus's The Flame Alphabet , Martin retrieves the postapocalyptic novel from survivalist fantasies of self-reliance and renders...

... by other works—notably Colson Whitehead's Zone One , N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, and Levar Burton's Aftermath —that focus on Black life as it survives the assaults of white supremacy. In the third thematic chapter, Bellamy's reading of Cormac McCarthy's The Road provides an especially...

... Century . London: Routledge, 1992 . Whitehead , William . A Trip to Scotland . London: J. Dodsley, 1770 . Wordsworth , Dorothy . Recollections of a tour made in Scotland .New Haven: Yale UP, 1997 . Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 Dislocating Literature...

... Whitehead's The Underground Railroad (2016), James wonders whether it is morally defensible to write beautifully about slavery. In this case it matters who is benefiting from that beautiful description and whose pain is being assuaged. Whether or not the poetic solace Whitehead offers is justifiable...

... by climate change ( Flood of Fire ; Great Derangement ). In another direction, Colson Whitehead recombines the shared genetic code of science fiction and the historical novel in The Underground Railroad , taking up a countertradition initiated nearly four decades ago by Octavia Butler. In Butler's...

... Trade. Prod. Trevor Phillips and Phillip Whitehead. Made by Pepper Productions and Brook Lapwing for Channel 4. Broadcast October 3,10,17, 24, 1999. Radio Times, 2–8 May 1998. Radio Times, 18–24 April 1998. Radway , Janice . Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature...

... accommodate authors like Colson Whitehead and Paul Beatty. In terms of its critical engagements, several of its most provocative remain implicit. For instance, although this book could readily be seen as part of the “temporal turn,” it does not position itself in that way. Similarly, there is no overt...

... include Gattaca (1997), The Island (2005), and Ex Machina (2014). 21 Anne Whitehead in her argument for empathy's dead end in Never Let Me Go turns to Derek Attridge to “propose that the performative element of the contemporary novel is particularly crucial to its mode of intervention...

... in the great tradition of aesthetic theory” (258). These arguments are interspersed with accounts of the ways non-KDP novels like Colson Whitehead's John Henry Days and Heike Geissler's Seasonal Associate foreshadow and/or critique aspects of Amazon-age literary production. In other words, Everything...

... reference point for literary fiction—as recent novels by Colson Whitehead, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Julian Barnes attest—a more experimental prose style has in turn been reappropriated by “genre” writers like Richard Price and David Peace. And such crossings of high and low are hardly...

... The Last Chronicle of Barset, I: 268 White, Gilbert The Prime Minister, I: 268 The Natural History and Antiquities of The Small House at Allington, I: 268 Selborne, II: 460 The Way We Live Now, I: 297 Whitehead, Colson Tutuola, Amos...

... those hierarchical distinctions, compelling a reassessment of the relative statuses of genre and literary fictions. These critics note the increasing presence of genre fiction forms in works by such securely literary authors as Kazuo Ishiguro, Colson Whitehead, Marlon James, Jennifer Egan, and Junot...