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050	0	4	_aPS3555.V34 _bZ87 2020
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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aStewart, Anthony, _d1964- _eauthor. _912828
245	1	0	_aApproximate gestures : _binfinite spaces in the fiction of Percival Everett / _cAnthony Stewart.
264		1	_aBaton Rouge : _bLouisiana State University Press, _c[2020]
300			_a1 online resource (xvi, 247 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPreface: On the Importance of Warning Signs and Inhabiting Our Uncertainty -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Approximate Gestures, Ghostly Echoes, and the Anticonventional -- Creating Infinite Spaces and the Role of the Schizorevolutionary. Productive Frustration, Anomalous Agents of Chaos, and Anti-Double Consciousness -- The Persistently Gnawing and Troubling Effort Not to Let Our Guards Down -- Religion, Art, and Race in Everett. Plateaus of Intensity in a World between Categories -- The Trace of Race and Difficult Likenesses -- Conclusions: The Enduring Presence of Alternative Possibilities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_a"In "Approximate Gestures," Anthony Stewart argues that the writing of Percival Everett, the acclaimed author of Erasure and more than twenty other works of fiction, 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 in an effort to confront bigotry and similarly limiting patterns of thought. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze and F�elix Guattari, Stewart proposes that their notion of the schizorevolutionary figure captures the in-between status of many of Everett's characters as they refuse the constraints of the binary, categorical structures that govern so much of human life. "Approximate Gestures" engages specifically with the vexed question of discussing race in Everett's fiction. Stewart frames the stakes of analyzing such subject matter in the writing of an African American novelist whose work rigorously questions critical approaches to race. Requiring readers to engage with black males who are hydrologists, ranchers, college professors, romance novelists, and in one case, a toddler, means entering a world released from habitual frames of reference. Through an examination of a broad selection of novels, Stewart demonstrates the extent to which Everett's characters inhabit "infinite spaces in between conventional categories" and understand themselves as subjects attempting to navigate social and psychological worlds. "Approximate Gestures: Infinite Spaces in the Fiction of Percival Everett" encourages readers and critics to think more deeply about how they position themselves in and engage with the world around them. As one of the first books of literary criticism devoted to Everett's fiction, Stewart's pathbreaking study models a method for reading the formidable body of work being produced by a major contemporary writer"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 16, 2020).
590			_aMaster record variable field(s) change: 050
600	1	0	_aEverett, Percival _xCriticism and interpretation. _912829
600	1	0	_aEverett, Percival _xCharacters. _912830
600	1	1	_aEverett, Percival _xCharacters. _912830
600	1	1	_aEverett, Percival _xCriticism and interpretation. _912829
600	1	7	_aEverett, Percival. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01457034 _912831
650		0	_aRace in literature. _912832
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. _2bisacsh _912833
650		7	_aCharacters and characteristics. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00852293 _912834
650		7	_aRace in literature. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01086506 _912832
655		4	_aElectronic books. _93907
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411635 _95662
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aStewart, Anthony, 1964- _tApproximate gestures _dBaton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020] _z9780807172643 _w(DLC) 2019048797
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