The Parody of Postblackness in I Am Not Sidney Poitier and the End(s) of African American Literature.
Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
Abstract
Analyzing Percival Everett's I Am Not Sidney Poitier as a multi-level parody, this essay argues that the novel not only parodies its protagonist's almost namesake's filmic oeuvre but also comically engages with Everett's own writing in general, and his novel Erasure in particular. Through detailed discussion of these various levels of parody, the essay teases out the ways in which postblack fiction offers a different, and decidedly non-mimetic, take on issues of race and racism than its predecessors in the African American literary tradition by complicating the relationship between fiction, fictional reality, and extra-textual reality.
Subjects
Postblack art
;
African American literature
;
parody
;
race
;
narratology
Institution
Type
journal article
Journal/Edited collection
Band
2
Issue
1
Start page
113
End page
132
Secondary publication
No
Language
German
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