The Twenty-First Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life

By E. Lâle Demirtürk

This book examines the post-9/11 African American novels, developing a new critical discourse on everyday discursive practices of whiteness.

Introduction - The 21st Century and the Invention of "Post-Racial(ized)" Blackness: Discrepant Engagements in the African American "Neo-Urban" NovelChapter One - The Contemporary African American Novel as Strategic Intervention in Post-9/11: Re-inscriptions of Emmett Till by Olympia Vernon, Daniel Black and Bernice L. McFaddenChapter Two - The "Politics of Small Things" as Transformative Change: Living "Thought in Action" in Walter Mosley's The Right MistakeChapter Three - Hybrid Spatialities in 'Gentrified' Discursive Terrain: Undoing the Walls of Whitely Modes of Being in Nathan McCall's ThemChapter Four - Navigating Interiority in the Interstices of 'Black(Police)Man' as Resistance: Transformative Politics of Mourning in Marita Golden's AfterChapter Five - (Dis)Articulations of Racial Scripts in the Black Performative: Savage Junctures of (Neo)Colonial Whiteness inWalter Mosley's The Man in my BasementAfterword - Transgressive Performativity of Blackness as Blueprint for Change: Deconstructing the Everyday Whiteness of Postraciality