Perspectives on Percival Everett by Keith B Mitchell
The first collection of essays to examine the breadth of Everett's creative output Essays by Uzzie Cannon, Jonathan Dittman, Ronald Dorris, Fr d rick Dumas, Sarah Mantilla, Richard Schur, Anthony Stewart, Robin G. Vander, and Sarah Wyman Percival Everett (b. 1956) writes novels, short stories, poetry, and essays, and is one of the most prolific, acclaimed, yet underexamined African American writers working today. Although to date Everett has published eighteen novels, three collections of short fiction, three poetry collections, and one children's book, his work has not garnered the critical attention that it deserves. Perhaps one of the most vexing problems scholars have had in trying to situate Everett's work is that they have found it difficult to place him and his work within a prescribed African American literary tradition. Because he happens to be African American, critics have expectations of so-called authentic African American fiction; however, his work often thwarts these expectations. In Perspectives on Percival Everett, scholars engage all of his creative production. On the one hand, Everett is an African American novelist. On the other hand, he pursues subject matters that seemingly have little to do with African American culture. The operative word here is seemingly; for as these essays demonstrate, Everett's works fall well within as well as outside of what most critics would deem the African American literary tradition. These essays examine issues of identity, authenticity, and semiotics, in addition to postmodernism and African American and American literary traditions--issues essential to understanding his aesthetic and political concerns.-
Pieces of Freedom
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The Nine O'Clock Whistle
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The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer
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African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas
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A Songbook of Slavery and Emancipation
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Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years
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Activism in the Name of God
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The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
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City Son
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Black Saturation
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Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos
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Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement
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Can’t Stand Still
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Black and More Than Black
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Labor Pains
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Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought
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Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt
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All Stories Are True
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The Postwar African American Novel
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In the Lion's Mouth
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Borders of Equality
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Fame to Infamy
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This Woman's Work
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Shadowing Ralph Ellison
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The African American Sonnet
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African American Haiku
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Rediscovering Frank Yerby
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Making a Way Out of No Way
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Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America
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Unexpected Places
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The Souls of White Folk
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The Politics of Paul Robeson's Othello
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African American Preachers and Politics
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Raised Up Down Yonder
Keith B. Mitchell, Lowell, Massachusetts, is assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.|Robin G. Vander, New Orleans, Louisiana, is assistant professor of English and African American Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781628460599 |
| ISBN 10 | 1628460598 |
| Title | Perspectives on Percival Everett |
| Author | Keith B Mitchell |
| Series | Margaret Walker Alexander Series In African American Studies |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University Press of Mississippi |
| Year published | 2014-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 167 |
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