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African American novels in the black lives matter era : transgressive performativity of black vulnerability as praxis in everyday life.

Title
African American novels in the black lives matter era : transgressive performativity of black vulnerability as praxis in everyday life. / E. Lâle Demirtürk.
Author
Demirtürk, Emine Lâle
Publication
  • Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
xi, 255 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • 2000-2099
  • American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
  • African American men in literature
  • Vulnerability (Personality trait) in literature
  • American fiction
  • American fiction > African American authors
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-235) and index.
Contents
Introduction: African American novels in the black lives matter era: transgressive performativity of black vulnerability as praxis in everyday life -- Embodied spaces of transformative change in the "homeless" city: affective possibilities of becoming black in Daniel Black's Listen to the lambs (2016) -- Performing transgressive silence as strategic resistance to whiteness: progressive spaces of black male subjectivity in Sister Souljah's A moment of silence: midnight III (2015) -- Toward new performatives of blackness as embodied praxis: affective shifts in the carceral spatiality of whiteness in Walter Mosley's Charcoal Joe (2016) -- Reframing the "scripted" vulnerability of whiteness as violence: the praxis of the wake in Victoria C. Murray's Stand your ground (2015) -- Strategic interventions in the carceral spaces of of whiteness: subversive politics of black male criminality in Walter Mosley's Down the river unto the sea (2018) -- Afterward: The Kaepernick moment as critique of everyday life: transgressive practices of blackness as a strategy for change.
Call Number
Sc E 19-1562
ISBN
  • 1498596215
  • 9781498596213
  • 9781498596220 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
1104409292
Author
Demirtürk, Emine Lâle, author.
Title
African American novels in the black lives matter era : transgressive performativity of black vulnerability as praxis in everyday life. / E. Lâle Demirtürk.
Publisher
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-235) and index.
Chronological Term
2000-2099
Research Call Number
Sc E 19-1562
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