Perspectives on Percival Everett
By: edited by Keith B. Mitchell and Robin G. Vander
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781617036828; 9781617036835
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: changing the frame, framing the change: the art of Percival Everett / Keith B. Mitchell and Robin G. Vander; title: "Knowledge2 + certainty2 = squat2": (re)thinking identity and meaning in Percival Everett's The water cure / Jonathan Dittman; title: "This strange juggler's game": forclusion in Percival Everett's I am not Sidney Poitier / Sarah Mantilla Griffin; title: Frenzy: framing text to set discourse in a cultural continuum / Ronald Dorris; title: The preservationist impulse in Percival Everett's "True romance" / Frederic Dumas; title: The mind-body split in American desert: synthesizing Everett's critique of race, religion, and science / Richard Schur; title: A bird of a different feather: blues, jazz, and the difficult journey to the self in Percival Everett's Suder / Uzzie Cannon; title: "Do you mind if we make Craig Suder white?": from stereotype to cosmopolitan to grotesque in Percival Everett's Suder / Anthony Stewart; title: Charting the body: Percival Everett's corporeal landscapes in re: f (gesture) / Sarah Wyman; title: When the text becomes the stage: Percival Everett's performance turn in For Her dark skin / Robin G. Vander.