Title The contemporary African-American novel : multiple cities, multiple subjectivities, and discursive practices of whiteness in everyday urban encounters / E. Lâle Demirtürk.

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Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012.

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Description	1 online resource
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 (1990) -- Transgressing the authority of whiteness in strategic spaces of blackness: resisting urban project of alterity in Walter Mosley's Little scarlet (2004) -- Deconstructing the black body as biopolitical paradigm of the city: "zones of indistinction" in John Edgar Wideman's Two cities (1998) -- Re-scripted performances of blackness as "parodies of whiteness": discursive frames of recognition in Percival Everett's I am not Sidney Poitier (2009) -- 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) -- Navigations of embedded dynamics of whiteness in the city as discursive space: revisionary urban scripts of "penalized" blackness in Asha Bandele's Daughter (2003) -- 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.
Summary	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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Subject	American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- African American authors.
	American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
	American fiction.
Chronological Term	21st century
Subject	African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	City and town life in literature.
	City and town life in literature.
	Cities and towns in literature.
	Cities and towns in literature.
	White people in literature.
	White people in literature.
Chronological Term	2000-2099
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: 9781283624565 (DLC) 2012013267
ISBN	1611475317 (electronic book)
	9781611475319 (electronic book)
	1611475309
	9781611475302
	9781283624565
	1283624567

Title The contemporary African-American novel : multiple cities, multiple subjectivities, and discursive practices of whiteness in everyday urban encounters / E. Lâle Demirtürk.

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