Lexington Books
Pages: 194
Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅜
978-1-66696-914-6 • Hardback • October 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-66696-915-3 • eBook • October 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
E. Lâle Demirtürk is professor emerita of American Literature in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.
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
Using Critical Whiteness studies, James Baldwin’s notion of love and empathy, and framing them within Mary Watkins’s concept of accompaniment, E. Lâle Demirtürk’s (Inter)racial Relationships as Accompaniment in Twenty-First Century African American Novels examines four contemporary African American novels, focusing on how they deconstruct the discursive practices of whiteness and imagine a world of interracial social encounters. It is a continuation of her groundbreaking critical work on the contemporary African American novel.
— W. Lawrence Hogue, University of Houston, author of "Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives"