The Contemporary African American Novel
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61147-530-2 (ISBN)
E. Lâle Demirtürk is associate professor of American literature in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.
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
Verlagsort | Cranbury |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 157 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 517 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-61147-530-9 / 1611475309 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61147-530-2 / 9781611475302 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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