Approximate Gestures

Argues 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.

Anthony Stewart , the John P. Crozer Chair of English Literature at Bucknell University, is the author of George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency ; You Must Be a Basketball Player: Rethinking Integration in the University ; and Visitor: My Life in Canada .