The Twenty-First Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life : Blackness As Strategy for Social Change.
Demirtürk, E. Lâle.
The Twenty-First Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life : Blackness As Strategy for Social Change. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (315 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Contemporary African American Novel as Strategic Intervention in Post-9/11 -- 2 The "Politics of Small Things" as Transformative Change -- 3 Hybrid Spatialities in "Gentrified" Discursive Terrain -- 4 Navigating Interiority in the Interstices of "Black(Police)Man" as Resistance -- 5 (Dis)Articulations of Racial Scripts in the Black Performative -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
This book examines the post-9/11 African American novels, developing a new critical discourse on everyday discursive practices of whiteness. It examines not only how instances of racialization are generated through the embodied practices of whiteness in everyday interracial social encounters, but also how whiteness is "undone" by and through the black embodied practices of black people, who find different ways of practicing their agency to work for social change.
9781498534833
African Americans - Intellectual life - 21st century.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5.D467 2016
813.609896073
The Twenty-First Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life : Blackness As Strategy for Social Change. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (315 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Contemporary African American Novel as Strategic Intervention in Post-9/11 -- 2 The "Politics of Small Things" as Transformative Change -- 3 Hybrid Spatialities in "Gentrified" Discursive Terrain -- 4 Navigating Interiority in the Interstices of "Black(Police)Man" as Resistance -- 5 (Dis)Articulations of Racial Scripts in the Black Performative -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
This book examines the post-9/11 African American novels, developing a new critical discourse on everyday discursive practices of whiteness. It examines not only how instances of racialization are generated through the embodied practices of whiteness in everyday interracial social encounters, but also how whiteness is "undone" by and through the black embodied practices of black people, who find different ways of practicing their agency to work for social change.
9781498534833
African Americans - Intellectual life - 21st century.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5.D467 2016
813.609896073