African american novels in the black lives matter era: transgressive performativity of black vulnerability as praxis in everyday life
Auteur :
Demirtürk, E. Lâle
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN :
9781498596237
Date de publication :
6 juil. 2021
Dimensions :
21,9 x 15,4 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
404 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This book explores revisions of black male vulnerability in contemporary literature, examining how an everyday life determined by racialized social control can be transformed. It shows how transformative change takes place in black male characters’ efforts to work through the criminality-as-vulnerability script in order to make a social impact.