Perspectives on Percival Everett / edited by Keith B. Mitchell and Robin G. Vander.

Other author Mitchell, Keith B., 1962-
Other author Vander, Robin G.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoJackson : University Press of Mississippi,
Descriptionxvii, 167 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesMargaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 152-158) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012021646
ISBN9781617036828 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781617036835 (ebook)

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