Colson Whitehead A Selected Bibliography of Recent Secondary Sources Bennett, Brit. “Ripping the Veil: Slave Narratives Have Always Been Popular—and Predictable, Can a New Generation Rewrite the Rules?” New Republic, Sept. 2016, pp. 48-51, newrepublic.com/article/135708/colson-whiteheads-fantastic-voyage. Bishop, Kyle William. How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture: The Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century. McFarland, 2015. Caughey, John S. “ʻA Zombie Novel with Brains’: Bringing Genre to Life in the Classroom.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice, vol.7, nos. 3-4, 2015, pp. 1-22. Christman, Philip. “The Startling Triumph of The Underground Railroad.” Christian Century, 26 Sept. 2016, www.christiancentury.org/reviews/2016-09/christman-reviews-whitehead. Collins, Peter. “The Ghosts of Economics Past: John Henry Days and the Production of History.” African American Review, vol. 46, nos. 2-3, 2013, pp. 285-300. Cooper, Preston Park. Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel. Peter Lang, 2015. Cvek, Sven. “Surviving Utopia in Zone One.” Facing the Crises: Anglophone Literature in the Postmodern World. Eds. Ljubica Matek and Jasna Poljak Rehlicki, Cambridge Scholars, 2014, pp. 2-14. Field, Douglas. “A Plantation Was a Plantation.” The Times Literary Supplement, 4 Nov. 2016, p. 22, www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/a-plantation-was-a-plantation/. Gauthier, Tim S. “Zombies, the Uncanny, and the City: Colson Whitehead’s Zone One.” The City since 9/11: Literature, Film, Television. Ed. Keith Wilhite. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2016, pp. 109-125. Grattan, Sean Austin. Hope Isn’t Stupid: Utopian Affects in Contemporary American Literature. U of Iowa P, 2017. ---. “I Think We’re Alone Now: Solitude and the Utopian Subject in Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist.” Cultural Critique, vol. 96, Spring 2017, pp. 126-53. Gross, Terry. “Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad Is a Literal Train to Freedom“ [Interview with Colson Whitehead]. Fresh Air. National Public Radio. 8 Aug. 2016, www.npr.org/templates/search/index.php?searchinput=underground+railroad. Hess, John Joseph. “Music Consumption and the Remix of Self in Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor.” Write in Tune: Contemporary Music in Fiction. Eds. Erich Hertz and Jeffrey Roessner, Bloomsbury, 2014, pp. 169-181. Hock, Stephen. “The Black Box of Genre in Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist and Charles Yu’s How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.” The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel. Ed. Tim Lanzendörfer. Lexington, 2016, pp. 57-71. 2

Hurley, Jessica. “History Is What Bites: Zombies, Race, and the Limits of Biopower in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol.56, no. 3, 2015, pp. 311-33. Knight, Nadine M. “ʻIt’s a New Day’: The Intuitionist, The Wire, and Prophetic Tradition.” MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 40, no. 4, 2015, pp. 28-44. Leader-Picone, Cameron. “Post-Black Stories: Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor and Racial Individualism.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 56, no. 3, 2015, pp. 421-49. Lenz, Wylie. “Toward a Genealogy of the American Zombie Novel: From Jack London to Colson Whitehead.” The Written Dead: Essays on the Literary Zombie. Eds. Kyle William Bishop, Angela Tenga, and Robert G. Weiner. McFarland, 2017, pp. 98-119. Leise, Christopher. “With Names, No Coincidence: Colson Whitehead’s Postracial Puritan Allegory.” African American Review, vol. 47, nos. 2-3, 2014, pp. 285-300. Lucas, Julian. “New Black Worlds to Know.” New York Review of Books, 29 Sept. 2016, pp. 56- 57, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/09/29/colson-whitehead-new-black-worlds/. Marshall, Kate. “What are the Novels of the Anthropocene? American Fiction in Geological Time.” American Literary History, vol. 27, no. 3, 2015, pp. 523-38. Maus, Derek C. Understanding Colson Whitehead. U of South Carolina P, 2014. Michiko, Kakutani. “Review: Underground Railroad Lays Bare Horrors of Slavery’s Toxic Legacy.” New York Times, 3 Aug. 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/books/review- the-underground-railroad-colson-whitehead.html. Morrison, Spencer. “Elevator Fiction: Robert Coover, Colson Whitehead, and the Sense of Infrastructure.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, vol. 73, no. 3, 2017, pp. 101-25. Schaub, Michael. “Underground Railroad Traces the Terrible Wounds of Slavery.” [Review] National Public Radio, 9 Aug. 2016, www.npr.org/2016/08/09/489208871/underground- railroad-traces-the-terrible-wounds-of-slavery. Schuessler, Jennifer. “The Book He Feared to Write.” New York Times, 04 Aug. 2016, pp. C1- C6, www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/books/colson-whitehead-on-slavery-success-and- writing-the-novel-that-really-scared-him.html. Schulz, Kathryn. “The Perilous Lure of the Underground Railroad: Hardly Anyone Used It, but it Provides Us with Moral Comfort—and White Heroes.” New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2016, pp. 66-73. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/the-perilous-lure-of-the-underground- railroad. Shermeyer, Kelli. “ʻSystems Die Hard’: Resistance and Reanimation in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One.” The Written Dead: Essays on the Literary Zombie. Eds. Kyle William Bishop, Angela Tenga, and Robert G. Weiner, McFarland, 2017, pp. 120-132. 3

Shrivastava, Jaya. “Recollection and Self-Assessment in Colson Whitehead’s John Henry Days.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, vol. 30, no. 1, 2017, pp. 58-62. Shrivastava, Jaya and Joe Varghese. “ʻThe City Knows You’: Spatial Consciousness in Colson Whitehead’s The Colossus of New York (2003).” Notes on Contemporary Literature, vol. 43, no. 5, 2013, pp. 4-6. Sollazzo, Erica. “The Dead City: Corporate Anxiety and the Post-Apocalyptic Vision in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One.” Law and Literature, vol. 29, no. 3, 2017, pp. 457-83.

Sorensen, Leif. “Against the Post-Apocalyptic: Narrative Closure in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 55, no. 3, 2014, pp. 559-92.

Spencer, Rochelle. “Afro-Surreal and Afro-Futuristic Visual Technologies in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Colson Whitehead’s Zone One.” Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought, vol. 5, no. 1, 2016, pp. 209-24. Swanson, Carl Joseph. “ʻThe Only Metaphor Left’: Colson Whitehead’s Zone One and Zombie Narrative Form.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, vol. 47, no. 3, 2014, pp. 379- 405. Tettenborn, Éva. “‘A Mountain Full of Ghosts’: Mourning African American Masculinities in Colson Whitehead’s John Henry Days.” African American Review, vol. 46, nos. 2-3, 2013, pp. 271-84. Vásquez, Juan Gabriel. “In Colson Whitehead’s Latest, the Underground Railroad Is More than a Metaphor.” New York Times Book Review, 5 Aug. 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/books/review/colson-whitehead-underground- railroad.html. Walonen, Michael. “ʻThis Making of Truth is Violence Too, out of which Facts are Formed’: Colson Whitehead’s Secret History of Post-Reconstruction America in John Henry Days.” Literature and History, vol. 23, no. 2, 2014, pp. 67-80. Williams, Thomas Chatterton. “Fried Fish” [Review]. London Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2016, www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n22/thomas-chatterton-williams/fried-fish.

Compiled by Frank D. Rashid, Professor Emeritus of English