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The contemporary African-American novel : multiple cities, multiple subjectivities, and discursive practices of whiteness in everyday urban encounters / E. Lale Demirturk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Demirtürk, Emine Lâle.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- African Americans--Intellectual life--21st century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans in literature.
- City and town life in literature.
- Cities and towns in literature.
- White people in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: How Black Are Whites in the Age of Obama; 1 Alternative "Detection" of Whiteness in Walter Mosley's L.A.; 2 Transgressing the Authority of Whiteness in Strategic Spaces of Blackness; 3 Deconstructing the Black Body as Biopolitical Paradigm of the City; 4 Rescripted Performances of Blackness as "Parodies of Whiteness"; 5 The Contested Terrain of Blackness in "Color-Blind" Spaces of Racialized Intersubjectivity; 6 Navigations of Embedded Dynamics of Whiteness in the City as Discursive Space
- 7 The (Im)possibilities of Writing the Black Interiority into Discursive TerrainAfterword: Undoing Whiteness or Performing Whiteness Differently; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-68393-791-0
- 1-283-62456-7
- 9786613937018
- 1-61147-531-7
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