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Perspectives on Percival Everett /

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 chil...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mitchell, Keith B., 1962-, Vander, Robin G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, Ã2013.
Colección:Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.