Perspectives on Percival Everett

Index

162 Index Page numbers in bold reference illustrations. Aeschylus, The Persians, 3 aestheticization of landscape, 60–61 African Americans, cultural context and, 7 African American literary tradition, 3–4; American Dream and, 91; The Bacchae and, 36–37; Everett and, 4, 94–95, 111, 134; Frenzy and, 56; mind-body split and, 75–78; quest motif in, 103; representation of black masculinity in, 96; Suder and, 95, 111 African American oral tradition, 38 African American Review, 92 African American Vernacular English , 11 African American writers, 22, 120–21 American Desert, 60, 78–92, 113; African American literary tradition and, 91; government in, 91; media in, 91; mind-body split in, 75, 78–79, 81, 84–86, 88–89, 90, 91–92; race in, 79– 80, 87, 92; religion in, 79–80, 84, 85– 86, 88–89, 91; resurrection in, 81, 82; science in, 82–83, 88–90, 91 American literary tradition, 72 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 114, 119 bacchants, 41 Baird, Lisa, 117 Baker, Houston, 97 Bakhtin, M. M., 142, 144 Baldwin, James, 94 Balzac, Honoré de, “Sarrasine,” 20 Baraka, Amiri, 95 Barthes, Roland: “The Death of the Author,” 14; S/Z, 20, 137n2 Beatty, Paul, White Boy Shuffle, 77 Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot, 131, 133 Bell, Bernard, 95 Benhabib, Seyla, 121, 125n3 Beowolf, 80–81 Bhabha, Homi K., 114 Bishop, Norma, “A Nigerian Version of a Greek Classic: Soyinka’s Transformation of The Bacchae,” 56 blazon tradition, 133, 135 blues, the: African Americans and, 96– 97; blues notes in, 97; call and response in, 97; history of, 97; improvisation in, 96; in literature, 97; in narrative, 97; structure of, 97; testifying and, 97–98; twelve-bar songs in, 97–98. See also Suder: blues in I N D E X 163 Boal, Augusto, Theatre of the Oppressed, 150n1 Brandon, George, Santeria from Africa to the New World, 36 Brown, William Wells, 24 Bullwinkle, 94 Burton, Richard Francis, 120 Butler, Samuel, 94 Cassuto, Leonard, 116, 121, 122 Chesnut, Charles, 94 Cones, James H., III, 96 Connerton, Paul, 144–45 Conquergood, Dwight, 139–40, 141, 147 cosmopolitanism, 101, 102, 114–15. See also Suder: cosmopolitanism in Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama, The Black Body, 77 defamiliarization, 5, 126, 134 Defiant Ones, The, 27 degradation of the natural landscape, 66–67, 74n2 Deleuze, Gilles, 96 Descartes, René, 75, 76, 79 Deutsch, James I., 17n2 Douglass, Frederick, 25 Dove, Rita, “After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed,” 136 Du Bois, W. E. B., 35, 76 Duncan, Bowie, “Jean Toomer’s Cane: A Modern Black Oracle,” 57n3 Eaton, Kimberley, 9 Eggins, Suzanne, 7 Ellis, Trey, 76; “New Black Aesthetic,” 92 Ellison, Ralph, 104; “Flying Home,” 117; “Hidden Name and Complex Fate,” 33n6; Invisible Man, 17, 87 Embassy Pictures, 19, 37, 115, 118, 124 environmentalism, 68–69 Erasure, 113, 134; identity and, 3, 10–12, 14; instability of meaning and, 8, 9, 132; meaning and, 129–30; mindbody split in, 78; negation and, 20; signification and, 20 Eternal Present, 40, 58n5 Euripides: The Bacchae, 35, 36–37; Medea, 138 Everett, Percival: “Afraid of the Dark,” 74n1; African American literary tradition and, 4, 94–95, 111, 134; American literary tradition and, 111; “The Appropriation of Cultures,” 72, 73n1; Assumption, 60; authorial identity and, 3, 14–15, 16–17; on being an African American author, 37; cryptic conclusions and, 123–24; cultural context and, 4–5; Damned if I Do, 60, 61, 73; forclusion and, 22, 32, 33n5; framing and, 9; Glyph, 77, 113, 130, 137n3; Grand Canyon, Inc., 60; identity and, 10–12; instability of meaning and, 8–10; language and subjectivity and, 21–22; making strange and, 127; meaning and, 129; mind-body split and, 77– 78; movie industry and, 19, 37, 115, 124; naming and, 32; narrow vision and, 127; paintings by, 128, 129, 132, 133; perceptions of truth and, 5–7; poetry of, 60; postmodernism and, 95; race and, 3, 27, 32, 94– 96, 134, 138n7; reverence for nature I N D E X 164 and, 60; Self-Portrait, 132, 133; signi fication and, 22, 128–29; “Signing to the Blind,” 19, 37, 56, 115, 120–21, 138n11; stereotyping and, 120–21; truck symbolism and, 63– 64, 67, 73n1; Walk Me to the Distance, 37; The Wall, 128, 129; “Warm and Nicely Buried,” 73n1; Watershed, 60; Wounded, 60; on writing, 56; Zulus, 77. See also American Desert; Erasure; For Her Dark Skin; Frenzy...