African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era:Transgressive Performativity of Black Vulnerability as Praxis in Everyday Life

by: E. Demirtürk (Author)

Publisher: Lexington Books

Publication Date: 9 Aug. 2019

Language: English

Print Length: 268 pages

ISBN-10: 1498596215

ISBN-13: 9781498596213

Book Description

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.