The contemporary African-American novel
Subtitle: multiple cities, multiple subjectivities, and discursive practices of whiteness in everyday urban encounters
By: E. Lâle Demirtürk
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781611475302; 9781611475319
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Intellectual life; City and town life in literature; History and criticism; Cities and towns in literature; African Americans; African American authors; American fiction; Whites in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: how black are whites in the age of Obama: problematizing normative spaces in the African American "neo-urban" novel; title: Alternative "detection" of whiteness in Walter Mosley's L.A.: the politics of masquerade in Devil in a blue dress (1990); title: Transgressing the authority of whiteness in strategic spaces of blackness: resisting urban project of alterity in Walter Mosley's Little scarlet (2004); title: Deconstructing the black body as biopolitical paradigm of the city: "zones of indistinction" in John Edgar Wideman's Two cities (1998); title: Re-scripted performances of blackness as "parodies of whiteness": discursive frames of recognition in Percival Everett's I am not Sidney Poitier (2009); title: 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); title: Navigations of embedded dynamics of whiteness in the city as discursive space: revisionary urban scripts of "penalized" blackness in Asha Bandele's Daughter (2003); title: 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); title: Afterword: undoing whiteness or performing whiteness differently : African American neo-urban novel as the critique of everyday life.