Colson Whitehead

Kimberly Fain, JD, MA, is an adjunct professor at Texas Southern University, Houston Community College, and an associate editor of World Literary Review.

In this volume, Kimberly Fain discusses how Whitehead's novels reconstruct the American identity to be inclusive rather than exclusive, thus broadening the scope of who is considered an American.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The IntuitionistChapter 1 Verticality: Allegorical Symbols of Racial and National UpliftChapter 2 Lila Mae the Invisible Woman of The IntuitionistChapter 3 Piercing the Veil: Passing, Colorblindness, and PostracialismChapter 4 The American Spirit: John Henry¿s Legendary and Epic Stature Amongst Folk Heroes Such as Pecos Bill and Paul BunyanChapter 5 Heroism and Masculinity in the Industrial Age and the Digital AgeChapter 6 Commercial Enslavement and Liberation in the Industrial Age versus the Digital AgeChapter 7 Apex: The Metaphorical Bandage That Masks but Never HealsPart II: The Colossus of New YorkChapter 8 New York: A Postracial Dream Realized or an American Dream Deferred Chapter 9 The Colossus of New York: A Tribute to Gothic Urban SpacesChapter 10 Subways, Rush Hour, and Downtown: New Yorkers Lead Quiet Lives ofDesperationPart III: Sag Harbor & Zone OneChapter 11 Social and Philosophical Divide: The Intersection of Class and Race for an Adolescent and Adult Colson WhiteheadChapter 12 Wright and Whitehead: Black Hunger in the South and Black Faces in the HamptonsChapter 13 Colson Whitehead¿s Zone One: Post-apocalyptic Zombies Takeover Manhattan in the Age of Nostalgia, Despair and ConsumptionConclusionBibliographyIndexAbout the Author