This book critically examines Whitehead's genre-driven fiction as a powerful intervention in debates on race, memory, and narrative form. It explores how his "unveiling" structures expose systemic racism and ethical conflict, establishing Whitehead as a central voice in contemporary African American literature and global genre fiction
This book critically examines Whitehead's genre-driven fiction as a powerful intervention in debates on race, memory, and narrative form. It explores how his "unveiling" structures expose systemic racism and ethical conflict, establishing Whitehead as a central voice in contemporary African American literature and global genre fiction
Paula Martín Salván is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Córdoba, Spain. She has published monographs on Don DeLillo and Graham Greene, and has co-edited several collections of essays, including Community in Twentieth Century Fiction (2013), New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject (2017) and The Politics of Transparency in Modern American Fiction: Fear, Secrecy and Exposure (2024). Her research focuses mainly on contemporary American literature, with a strong background in literary and critical theory, particularly in the fields of trauma studies, communitarian theory, secrecy studies, narratology, and deconstruction. She currently leads a research project entitled "The Poetics and Politics of Transparency in Contemporary Literature in English" funded by the Spanish government, implemented by a research team from the Universities of Córdoba and Granada.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION: Unveiling Structures CHAPTER 1: Detection and the Ethics of Attention in The Intuitionist, John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt CHAPTER 2: Unveiling the Self: The Aporias of Autobiography in Sag Harbor CHAPTER 3: Apocalypse, again? Revelation and the temporal structure of Zone One CHAPTER 4: "Speaking the Unspeakable": The Unnarrated in The Underground Railroad CHAPTER 5: "A jail within a jail": Concealment and Unveiling as Narrative Structure in The Nickel Boys CHAPTER 6: The Harlem Trilogy: Revealing the System, or the Bent Man's Progress EPILOGUE: Unveiling as Method REFERENCES INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION: Unveiling Structures CHAPTER 1: Detection and the Ethics of Attention in The Intuitionist, John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt CHAPTER 2: Unveiling the Self: The Aporias of Autobiography in Sag Harbor CHAPTER 3: Apocalypse, again? Revelation and the temporal structure of Zone One CHAPTER 4: "Speaking the Unspeakable": The Unnarrated in The Underground Railroad CHAPTER 5: "A jail within a jail": Concealment and Unveiling as Narrative Structure in The Nickel Boys CHAPTER 6: The Harlem Trilogy: Revealing the System, or the Bent Man's Progress EPILOGUE: Unveiling as Method REFERENCES INDEX
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