They Are Sending Us To Heaven: Elevator-Citizenship in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist (1999)

Conn, Addison

dc.contributor.advisor	McInerney, Maud Burnett
dc.contributor.author	Conn, Addison
dc.date.accessioned	2021-07-13T17:39:49Z
dc.date.available	2021-07-13T17:39:49Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10066/23583
dc.description.abstract	Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist (1999) is latent with racialized metaphors surrounding elevators in the early modernization of the 20th century United States. Through the use of the black box, or perfect elevator, Whitehead renegotiates the relationship between technology and progress, questioning hierarchal assumptions that arise from the conflation of the two. My thesis seeks to examine these sites of metaphor as a lineage in prophetic tradition and the detective novel, and it's submission as a deconstruction of those very lineages.
dc.description.sponsorship	Haverford College. Department of English
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject.lcsh	Whitehead, Colson, 1969- Intuitionist
dc.subject.lcsh	Whitehead, Colson, 1969- -- Criticism and interpretation
dc.subject.lcsh	Prophecies in literature
dc.subject.lcsh	Detective and mystery stories
dc.subject.lcsh	Black people in literature
dc.title	They Are Sending Us To Heaven: Elevator-Citizenship in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist (1999)
dc.type	Thesis
dc.rights.access	Open Access