The Twenty-first Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Twenty-first Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life write by E. Lâle Demirtürk. This book was released on 2016-05-25. The Twenty-first Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the post-9/11 African American novels, developing a new critical discourse on everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday life in the racial context of post-9/11 American society is important in considering diverse forms of the lived experiences and subjectivities of black people in the novels. They help us see that African American representations of the city have political significance in that the “neo-urban novel” explores the possibility of a black dialogic communication to build a transformative social change. Since the real power of Whiteness lies in its discursive power, the book reveals the urgency to understand not only how whiteness works in everyday life in American society. But it also explores how to cultivate new possibilities of configuring and performing Blackness differently, as a response to the post-9/11 configurations of the culture of fear, to produce new ways of interactional social relations that can eventually open up the space of critical awareness for white people to work against rather than reinforce discursive practices of White supremacy in everyday life. This book explores how the multiple subjectivities and transformative acts of blackness can offer ways of subverting the discursive power of the white embodied practices. What defines post-9/11 America as a nation that is consumed by the fear of racialized terrorists is its roots in the fear of (‘uncontrollable’) Blackness as excess and ominous threat in the domestic terrain through which the ideology of White supremacy has constructed for governing through Whiteness. African-American urban novels published in the twenty-first century respond to the discursive power of normative Whiteness that regulates black bodies, selves and lives. This book demonstrates how black people contest white dominant social spaces as sites of black criminality and exclusion in an attempt to re-signify them as the sites of black transformative change through personal and grassroots activism through their performativity of Blackness as an agential identity formation in their interpersonal urban social encounters with white people. Hence, the vulnerable spaces of Whiteness in interracial urban encounters, as it pervasively addresses those moments of transformative change, enacted by Black characters, in the face of the discursive practices of whiteness in the everyday life. These novels celebrate multifarious representations of black individuals, who are capable of using their agency to subvert White discursive power, in finding ways in their personal and grassroots activism to transform the culture of fear that locates Blackness as such in an attempt to make a difference in the American society at large.
The Twenty-first Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life
The Twenty-first Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Twenty-first Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life write by Emine Lâle Demirtürk. This book was released on 2016. The Twenty-first Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Contemporary African American Novel
The Contemporary African American Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Contemporary African American Novel write by E. Lâle Demirtürk. This book was released on 2012-07-20. The Contemporary African American Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era
African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era write by E. Lâle Demirtürk. This book was released on 2019-08-09. African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era: Transgressive Performativity of Black Vulnerability as Praxis in Everyday Life explores the undoing of whiteness by black people, who dissociate from scripts of black criminality through radical performative reiterations of black vulnerability. It studies five novels that challenge the embodied discursive practices of whiteness in interracial social encounters, showing how they use strategic performances of Blackness to enable subversive practices in everyday life, which is constructed and governed by white mechanisms of racialized control. The agency portrayed in these novels opens up alternative spaces of Blackness to impact the social world and effects transformative change as a forceful critique of everyday life. African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era shows how these novels reformulate the problem of black vulnerability as a constitutive source of the right to life in their refusal of subjection to vulnerability, enacted by white institutional and individual forms of violence. It positions a white-black-encounter-oriented reading of these “neo-resistance novels” of the Black Lives Matter era as a critique of everyday life in an effort to explore spaces of radical performativity of blackness to make happen social change and transformation.
(Inter)racial Relationships as Accompaniment in Twenty-First Century African American Novels
(Inter)racial Relationships as Accompaniment in Twenty-First Century African American Novels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook (Inter)racial Relationships as Accompaniment in Twenty-First Century African American Novels write by E. Lâle Demirtürk. This book was released on 2024-10-15. (Inter)racial Relationships as Accompaniment in Twenty-First Century African American Novels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. (Inter)racial Relationships as Accompaniment in Twenty-First Century African American Novels explores the acts of accompaniment to disrupt the embodied discursive practices of whiteness and Black vulnerability as a way to change social relations across racial difference in the novels. The novels analyzed in the book explore those Black male characters, who work through the norms of whiteness in their relations with Black and white wo/men while at the same time enacting the practices of accompaniment to subvert the embodied practices of whiteness. At a time when there is the rise of interest in activist work such as the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement against the systems of white supremacy in the post-Trump era, these novels shape an understanding of Black characters’ struggle against discursive violence as a radical social praxis to transform the everyday life. The book consists of four chapters on Kalisha Buckhanon’s Speaking of Summer (2019), Kalisha Buckhanon’s Upstate (2005), Ben Burgess Jr.’s Defining Moments: Black and White (2020), and Walter Mosley’s Every Man a King: A King Oliver Novel (2023). While these novels depict a critique of racialized everyday life, they interrogate whiteness as a political act of devaluation of Blackness and Black life by establishing relations through accompaniment. The act as such stretches the boundary lines between who is the accompanier and the accompanied in shifting configurations of whiteness and blackness in the positioning of the vulnerable.
