Perspectives on Percival Everett / edited by Keith B. Mitchell and Robin G. Vander.

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
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Physical Description:xvii, 167 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.