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Contemporary African American Novel: Multiple Cities, Multiple Subjectivities, and Discursive Practices of Whiteness in Everyday Urban Encounters

Contemporary African American Novel: Multiple Cities, Multiple Subjectivities, and Discursive Practices of Whiteness in Everyday Urban Encounters

Demirtürk, E. Lâle

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Literary CriticismBlack American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1611475309
ISBN13: 9781611475302
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: Jul 20 2012
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book examines the post-1990s African American novels, namely the neo-urban novel, and develops a new urban discourse for the twenty-first century on how the city, as a social formation, impacts black characters through everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday life in a racial context is important in considering diverse forms of the lived reality of black everyday life in the novelistic representations of the white dominant urban order. African American fictional representations of the city have political significance in that the neo-urban novel explores the nature of the American society at large. This book explores the need to understand how whiteness works, what it forecloses, and what it occasionally opens up in everyday life in American society.

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