Unveiling Structures in Colson Whitehead’s 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.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTION: Unveiling StructuresCHAPTER 1: Detection and the Ethics of Attention in The Intuitionist, John Henry Days and Apex Hides the HurtCHAPTER 2: Unveiling the Self: The Aporias of Autobiography in Sag HarborCHAPTER 3: Apocalypse, again? Revelation and the temporal structure of Zone OneCHAPTER 4: “Speaking the Unspeakable”: The Unnarrated in The Underground RailroadCHAPTER 5: “A jail within a jail”: Concealment and Unveiling as Narrative Structure in The Nickel BoysCHAPTER 6: The Harlem Trilogy: Revealing the System, or the Bent Man’s ProgressEPILOGUE: Unveiling as MethodBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX