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Approximate Gestures
Infinite Spaces in the Fiction of Percival EverettArgues that the writing of Percival Everett compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart maintains that Everett's fiction challenges its interpreters to question their assumptions, consider the spaces in between categories, and embrace the potential of a larger, more uncertain world.
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Black Bourgeois
Class and Sex in the Flesh"Bourgeois in the Flesh examines how late 20th and early 21st century African American literary texts grapple with the dilemma of black bourgeois subjectivity"--
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Black Bourgeois
Class and Sex in the Flesh"Bourgeois in the Flesh examines how late 20th and early 21st century African American literary texts grapple with the dilemma of black bourgeois subjectivity"--
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Race and the Literary Encounter
Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett"A fact never to be forgotten is that reading was prohibited for slaves, an act that 'marked literacy as a paradoxical sign of both outlaw status and freedom.'"—AMERICAN LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP "An illuminating study that promises to make significant inroads in the field of African American literary criticism and American studies. Larkin poses a series of provocative queries about the 'politics' of writing, reading, and interpreting 20th century literature by African and Caribbean American writers."—Salamishah Tillet, author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination
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Race and the Literary Encounter
Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett"A fact never to be forgotten is that reading was prohibited for slaves, an act that 'marked literacy as a paradoxical sign of both outlaw status and freedom.'"—AMERICAN LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP "An illuminating study that promises to make significant inroads in the field of African American literary criticism and American studies. Larkin poses a series of provocative queries about the 'politics' of writing, reading, and interpreting 20th century literature by African and Caribbean American writers."—Salamishah Tillet, author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination
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Passing into the Present
Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender PassingThis is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990’s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.
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Conversations with Percival Everett
The author of more than twenty-five books, Percival Everett has established himself as one of America's - and arguably the world's - premier twenty-first-century fiction writers. Interviews collected in this volume display Everett's abundant wit as well as the independence of thought that has led to his work's being described as “characteristically uncharacteristic”.
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Jesting in Earnest
Percival Everett and Menippean SatirePercival Everett, a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California, is the author of more than thirty books on a variety of subjects and genres. Derek Maus proposes that the best way to analyse Everett's varied oeuvre is within the framework of Menippean satire, which focuses its ridicule on faulty modes of thinking.
€ 49,95