E. Lâle Demirtürk

The Contemporary African American Novel (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the post-1990s African American novels, namely the "neo-urban novel," and develops a new urban discourse for the twenty-first century on how the city, as a social formation, impacts black characters through everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday life in a racial context is important in considering diverse forms of the lived reality of black everyday life in the novelistic representations of the white dominant urban order. African American fictional representations of the city have political significance in that the "neo-urban novel" explores the nature of the American society at large. This book explores the need to understand how whiteness works, what it forecloses, and what it occasionally opens up in everyday life in American society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781683937913
• Artikelnr.: 75137403

Autorenporträt

E. Lâle Demirtürk is professor emerita 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