Approximate Gestures : Infinite Spaces in the Fiction of Percival Everett /

"In "Approximate Gestures," Anthony Stewart argues that the writing of Percival Everett, the acclaimed author of Erasure and more than twenty other works of fiction, compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart maintains that Everett's fictio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stewart, Anthony, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Everett, Percival.
Everett, Percival > Criticism and interpretation.
Everett, Percival > Characters.
Race in literature.
Characters and characteristics.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American.
Race dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: On the Importance of Warning Signs and Inhabiting Our Uncertainty
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Approximate Gestures, Ghostly Echoes, and the Anticonventional
  • Creating Infinite Spaces and the Role of the Schizorevolutionary. Productive Frustration, Anomalous Agents of Chaos, and Anti-Double Consciousness
  • The Persistently Gnawing and Troubling Effort Not to Let Our Guards Down
  • Religion, Art, and Race in Everett. Plateaus of Intensity in a World between Categories
  • The Trace of Race and Difficult Likenesses
  • Conclusions: The Enduring Presence of Alternative Possibilities
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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