“Black Matters”: Race and Literary History in Mat Johnson’s Pym

• Published in: European journal of American studies
• Main Author: Wilks, Jennifer M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: European Association for American Studies 2016
• Subjects: 19th century; 21st century; Edgar Allan Poe; literary history; Mat Johnson; Playing in the Dark; Pym; race; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket; Toni Morrison; United States; Morrison; Nantucket; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://ejas.revues.org/11523

After being denied tenure for expanding his teaching of race and literary history beyond exclusively African American texts, Chris Jaynes, the protagonist of Mat Johnson’s novel Pym (2011), sets out to retrace the voyage from Edgar Allan Poe’s 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantuck...