Perspectives on Percival Everett:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson University Press of Mississippi ©2013
Series:Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: changing the frame, framing the change: the art of Percival Everett / Keith B. Mitchell and Robin G. Vander -- "Knowledge2 + certainty2 = squat2": (re)thinking identity and meaning in Percival Everett's The water cure / Jonathan Dittman -- "This strange juggler's game": forclusion in Percival Everett's I am not Sidney Poitier / Sarah Mantilla Griffin -- Frenzy: framing text to set discourse in a cultural continuum / Ronald Dorris -- The preservationist impulse in Percival Everett's "True romance" / Frederic Dumas -- The mind-body split in American desert: synthesizing Everett's critique of race, religion, and science / Richard Schur -- A bird of a different feather: blues, jazz, and the difficult journey to the self in Percival Everett's Suder / Uzzie Cannon -- "Do you mind if we make Craig Suder white?": from stereotype to cosmopolitan to grotesque in Percival Everett's Suder / Anthony Stewart -- Charting the body: Percival Everett's corporeal landscapes in re: f (gesture) / Sarah Wyman -- When the text becomes the stage: Percival Everett's performance turn in For Her dark skin / Robin G. Vander
Percival Everett writes novels, short stories, poetry, and essays, and is one of the most prolific, acclaimed, yet under-examined African American writers working today. Although to date Everett has published eighteen novels, three collections of short fiction, three poetry collections, and one children's book, his work has not garnered the critical attention that it deserves. Perhaps one of the most vexing problems black and white scholars have had in trying to situate Everett's work is that they have found it difficult to ""place"" him and his work within a prescribed African American lit
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 167 pages)
ISBN:1621039188
9781621039181
9781617036835
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