The contemporary African American novel : multiple cities, multiple subjectivities, and discursive practices of whiteness in everyday urban encounters /

The contemporary African American novel : multiple cities, multiple subjectivities, and discursive practices of whiteness in everyday urban encounters /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Demirtürk, Emine Lâle
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 21st century.
African Americans in literature.
Blacks in literature.
Whites in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
Race in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: how black are whites in the age of Obama: problematizing normative spaces in the African American "neo-urban" novel
  • Alternative "detection" of whiteness in Walter Mosley's L.A.: the politics of masquerade in Devil in a blue dress
  • Transgressing the authority of whiteness in strategic spaces of blackness: resisting urban project of alterity in Walter Mosley's Little scarlet
  • Deconstructing the black body as biopolitical paradigm of the city: "zones of indistinction" in John Edgar Wideman's Two cities
  • Rescripted performances of blackness as "parodies of whiteness": discursive frames of recognition in Percival Everett's I am not Sidney Poitier
  • The contested terrain of blackness in "color-blind" spaces of racialized intersubjectivity: unmasking discursive manifestations of whiteness in Martha Southgate's The fall of Rome
  • Navigations of embedded dynamics of whiteness in the city as discursive space: revisionary urban scripts of "penalized" blackness in Asha Bandele's Daughter
  • The (im)possibilities of writing the Black interiority into discursive terrain: the discourse of failure as success in unavailable/unavoidable spaces of whiteness in Michael Thomas' Man gone down
  • Afterword: undoing whiteness or performing whiteness differently: the African American neo-urban novel as the critique of everyday life.