E Lâle Demirtürk

The Twenty-First Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life

Blackness as Strategy for Social Change

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the post-9/11 African American novels, developing a new critical discourse on everyday discursive practices of whiteness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 151mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781498534840
• ISBN-10: 1498534848
• Artikelnr.: 48894262

Autorenporträt

By E. Lâle Demirtürk

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - The 21st Century and the Invention of "Post-Racial(ized)"
Blackness: Discrepant Engagements in the African American "Neo-Urban" Novel
Chapter One - The Contemporary African American Novel as Strategic
Intervention in Post-9/11: Re-inscriptions of Emmett Till by Olympia
Vernon, Daniel Black and Bernice L. McFadden Chapter Two - The "Politics of
Small Things" as Transformative Change: Living "Thought in Action" in
Walter Mosley's The Right Mistake Chapter Three - Hybrid Spatialities in
'Gentrified' Discursive Terrain: Undoing the Walls of Whitely Modes of
Being in Nathan McCall's Them Chapter Four - Navigating Interiority in the
Interstices of 'Black(Police)Man' as Resistance: Transformative Politics of
Mourning in Marita Golden's After Chapter Five - (Dis)Articulations of
Racial Scripts in the Black Performative: Savage Junctures of (Neo)Colonial
Whiteness inWalter Mosley's The Man in my Basement Afterword -
Transgressive Performativity of Blackness as Blueprint for Change:
Deconstructing the Everyday Whiteness of Postraciality