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- Title
With Names, No Coincidence: Colson Whitehead's Postracial Puritan Allegory.
- Authors
Leise, Christopher
- Abstract
A literary criticism is presented on the 2006 American fictional book "Apex Hides the Hurt," by African American author Colson Whitehead. Topics within the book, including the renaming of a fictional U.S. town, the relationship between the U.S. President Ronald Reagan and the Governor of the Mass Bay Colony John Winthrop and Puritan allegory, are discussed. The topic of Whitehead as a postracial writer is also discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; APEX Hides the Hurt (Book); WHITEHEAD, Colson, 1969-; AFRICAN American fiction; PURITANS in literature; ALLEGORY; POSTRACIALISM; REAGAN, Ronald, 1911-2004; THEMES in literature; LITERARY criticism; AMERICAN fiction
- Publication
African American Review, 2014, Vol 47, Issue 2/3, p285
- ISSN
1062-4783
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/afa.2014.0046