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Title Perspectives on Percival Everett [electronic resource] / edited by Keith B. Mitchell and Robin G. Vander.

Imprint Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.

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Description xvii, 167 p. : ill.
Series Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Everett, Percival L. -- Criticism and interpretation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Mitchell, Keith B., 1962-
Vander, Robin G.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781617036828 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781621039181 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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