Reading Race Relationally : Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead's Novels / Marlon Lieber.

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading, Race, Relationally
Racial Ideology and Literary Criticism
Thinking Relationally
Reading Relationally
Chapter Overview
1. Reading the Past, Writing the Future: The Intuitionist
Literary Tradition and Racial Community
Embodying History
Racialized Domination and Theatricality
The End(s) of African American Literature
Elevatorness and Objecthood
2. Ab/uses of History: John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt
It is (Not) Always Mississippi in the Fifties
L'invention du temps perdu

A Tale of Three Names and One City
Family Matters
The History of Struggles
3. (Post-Black) Bildungsroman or Novel of (Black Bourgeois) Manners? Sag Harbor
Post-Black, Post-Class?
Putting the Black Bourgeoisie on the Map
Delinking Fate
Cursed Grammar
Bildung vs. Manners
4. Money, Abstraction, Cultural Production: John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt Revisited
Mercenaries in the Marketplace
Field Work
x Words = y Dollars, or, a Value-Form Theoretical Excursus
Adam in Commodity Paradise
Out of This World
5. The Masterless Ocean: Zone One

Beneath the Zombie Renaissance
The Living Dead in the Long Downturn
Monstrous Mobility
The Apotheosis of Hysteresis
Conclusion: To Escape the Fundamental Principles of Your Existence
The Right Perspective
Social Structures and Embodied Dispositions
A Ruthless Engine
To Escape the Fundamental Principles of Your Existence
Without the Interference of Men
Works Cited