E. Lâle Demirtürk

The Contemporary African American Novel

Multiple Cities, Multiple Subjectivities, and Discursive Practices of Whiteness in Everyday Urban Encounters

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how African American novels explore instances of racialization that are generated through discursive practices of whiteness in the interracial social encounters of everyday life. African American fictional representations of the city have political significance in that the "neo-urban" novel, a term that refers to those novels published in post-1990s, explores the possibility of a dialogic communication with the American society at large.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9781611475302
• ISBN-10: 1611475309
• Artikelnr.: 35425168

Autorenporträt

E. Lâle Demirtürk is associate professor of American literature in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: How Black are Whites in the Age of
Obama: Problematizing Normative Spaces in the African American 'Neo-Urban'
Novel Chapter One: Alternative "Detection" of Whiteness in Walter Mosley's
L.A.: The Politics of Masquerade in Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) Chapter
Two: Transgressing the Authority of Whiteness in Strategic Spaces of
Blackness: Resisting Urban Project of Alterity in Walter Mosley's Little
Scarlet (2004 Chapter Three: Deconstructing the Black Body as Biopolitical
Paradigm of the City: "Zones of Indistinction" in John Edgar Wideman's Two
Cities (1998) Chapter Four: Re-Scripted Performances of Blackness as
'Parodies of Whiteness': Discursive Frames of Recognition in Percival
Everett's I am Not Sidney Poitier (2009) Chapter Five: Contested Terrain of
Blackness in "Color-Blind" Spaces of (Racialized) Intersubjectivity:
Unmasking Discursive Manifestations of Whiteness in Martha Southgate's The
Fall of Rome (2002) Chapter Six: Navigations of Embedded Dynamics of
Whiteness in the City as Discursive Space: Revisionary Urban Scripts of
"Penalized" Blackness in Asha Bandele's Daughter (2003 Chapter Seven: The
(Im)possibilities of Writing the Black Interiority Into DiscursiveTerrain:
The Discourse of Failure as Success in Unavailable/Unavoidable Spaces of
Whiteness in Michael Thomas' Man Gone Down (2007 Afterword: Undoing
Whiteness or Performing Whiteness Differently : African American Neo-Urban
Novel as the Critique of Everyday Life Bibliography Index About the Author