(Inter)racial Relationships as Accompaniment in Twenty-First Century African American Novels

This book explores the need to interrogate and subvert the embodied discursive practices of whiteness in the reiteration of norms through the construct of accompaniment, both within black spaces and across the color line, with a critical awareness that values collective experience of shared vulnerability in everyday life.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: African American Novels in the Twenty-First Century: Blackness as Strategy of Mutual Accompaniment in Everyday Life
Chapter One: Everyday Acts of Mutual Accompaniment as Liberatory Praxis: Building Interracial Commons in Kalisha Buckhanon's Speaking of Summer (2019)
Chapter Two: Accompaniment in the Spaces of White Governance: Resistance to Internalized Carcerality in Kalisha Buckhanon's Upstate (2005)
Chapter Three: The Transformative Politics of Love as Corrective to White Supremacy in Ben Burgess Jr.'s Defining Moments: Black and White (2020)
Chapter Four: Practices of Accompaniment in Contested Spaces of Embodied Carcerality: Walter Mosley's Every Man a King: A King Oliver Novel (2023)
Conclusion: Accompaniment as Critique of Everyday Life: Transforming Racialized Social Imaginary
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By E. Lâle Demirtürk

Product details

• Authors: E. Lale Demirturk, E. Lâle Demirtürk
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2024
• EAN: 9781666969146
• ISBN: 978-1-6669-6914-6
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 237 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 472 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Literature: history & criticism, Relating to African American people, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Black & Asian Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Literary studies: from c 2000