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The Twenty-first Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life: Blackness as Strategy for Social Change

The Twenty-first Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life: Blackness as Strategy for Social Change

Current price: $129.00
Publication Date: May 25th, 2016
Publisher:
Lexington Books
ISBN:
9781498534826
Pages:
314
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Description

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.

About the Author

E. Lâle Demirtürk is professor of American literature in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University.