The Contemporary African American Novel: Multiple Cities, Multiple Subjectivities, and Discursive Practices of Whiteness in Everyday Urban Encounters - Hardcover

Demirtürk, E. Lâle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611475309 ISBN 13: 9781611475302

Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012

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Book by Demirtrk E Lle

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Lale Demirturk's critical study of the African American "neo-urban novel" draws together an impressive array of postmodern theory and criticism. This in-depth analysis of novels by six contemporary American writers convincingly demonstrates how these novelists ultimately subvert the discursive power of normative whiteness. The study's interpretative framework is aptly applied to a range of texts, from Walter Mosley's popular detective fiction to Percival Everett's and John Edgar Wideman's arguably more literary works. The internationalist perspective of the book provides an intriguing angle on how these cutting-edge writers re-imagine the everyday realities of the American urban landscape. Theoretically assured and richly detailed, Demirturk's study will prove a rewarding read for serious students of African American literature. -- Bonnie Tusmith, Associate Professor, Washington State University Lale Demirturk's new text importantly demonstrates how black people contest urban spaces as tropes of black criminality and savagery in need of white control and how, through such acts of contestation, black bodies are able to re-signify such urban spaces as sites of agential identity formation in relationship to white hegemony. Demirturk's text, which makes a significant contribution to African American literature, whiteness studies, and the dynamics of racialized urban space, is as much an intelligent and splendid analysis of "the African American neo-urban novel" as it is a text that infuses her own identity as an ally of black people. -- George Yancy, professor of philosophy, Emory University

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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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• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1611475309
• ISBN 13: 9781611475302
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254