Elena Agathokleous 
Colson Whitehead’s and Louise Erdrich’s use of the postmodern mode of thought for political liberation [PDF ebook] 

Essay from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies – Literature, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The essay deals with Colson Whitehead’s and Louise Erdrich’s use of the postmodern mode of thought for political liberation.
Both Colson Whitehead and Louise Erdrich originate from people who have suffered oppression in inhumane ways and still face it in current times. Their novels take on the task to allow history to resurface and retell the histories of the past in a way that makes them popular to contemporary readers while at the same time their novels become narratives which call for political liberation.