Marlon Lieber’s forthcoming monograph, Reading Race Relationally: Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead’s Novels, will be published very soon, in May 2023 by transcript Verlag. It is also the most recent book manuscript we have copy-edited at Southwest Humanities. Lieber’s book undertakes close readings of Whitehead’s first six novels (The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, Sag Harbor, Zone One, and The Underground Railroad), asking what it means “to write African American literature after the end of legalized segregation.” Throughout seven chapters, Lieber draws on Marxist scholarship and the work of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to show how “Whitehead’s oeuvre articulates the tension between the persistent presence of racism and transformations in the United States’ class structure, which reveals new modes of abjection.” For more information on this exciting new title, please take a look at the publisher’s website here.