Contemporary African American Novel (eBook)

Dr. E. Lâle Demirtürk is associate professor of American literature in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.

ContentsAcknowledgments 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