Contemporary African American Novel
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20th-century literature
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- ISBN 9781611477009
- Weight: 381g
- Dimensions: 154 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jun 2014
- Publisher: Associated University Presses
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
E. Lâle Demirtürk is associate professor of American literature in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.
