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Table of Contents

Introduction: "It's not a good thing. It's not a bad thing. But it's a thing. But it doesn't mean it has to remain that way."

Anthony Stewart
pp. 1-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0000
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Retracing the Hype about Hyper into Percival Everett

Zach Linge
pp. 5-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0001
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So Much Blue: The Equanimity of Passionate Desperation

Judith Roof
pp. 17-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0002
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Revealing the Artistry of Percival Everett's So Much Blue

Joe Weixlmann
pp. 27-46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0003
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Intimate Realities and Necessary Fiction in Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

Leah Milne
pp. 47-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0004
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Notes of a Native Novelist: Institutional Blackness and Critical Uplift in Percival Everett's Self-Help Satire Glyph

Johannes Kohrs
pp. 61-74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0005
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Voicing His Objections: Narrative Voice as Racial Critique in Percival Everett's God's Country

James J. Donahue
pp. 75-86
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0006
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Philosophy Embedded in Space: Rethinking the Frontier in Percival Everett's Western Novels

Michel Feith
pp. 87-100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0007
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Animal Phat Farm, and: Jim Opus [jim oh-puh s]

Cortney Lamar Charleston
pp. 101-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0008
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Bill C., for atonement—erasure, and: The Starfish and the Sponge

Vernita Hall
p. 103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0009
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dear citizen

Marcus B. McArthur
pp. 104-106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0010
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An Apology to Thin Air

Michael Meyerhofer
pp. 107-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0011
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Cultural Memories of Origin: Trauma, Memory and Imagery in African American Narratives of the Middle Passage by Frank Wilker (review)

Tuire Valkeakari
pp. 109-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0012
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Slavery and Silence: Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate by Paul D. Naish (review)

Jeffrey F. Taffet
pp. 111-112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0013
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A Political Companion to James Baldwin ed. by Susan J. McWilliams (review)

Douglas Field
pp. 112-114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0014
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Fired Up! Ready to Go!: Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art. The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz by Peggy Cooper Cafritz (review)

Michelle Joan Wilkinson
pp. 114-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0015
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Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports by Anke Ortlepp (review)

Christopher Schaberg
pp. 117-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0016
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Contributors

pp. 119-120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2019.0017
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