Joe Weixlmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1213611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joe Weixlmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joe |
| FAMILY NAME | Weixlmann |
| SIGNATURE | WEIXLMANN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reading the “Slash” in Percival Everett’s American Desert
This article explores Percival Everett’s multi-dimensional use of a concept he has termed the “slash” (i.e., the line that both separates and conjoins signifier/signified) in his novel American Desert. In effect, this slash is a trope Everett deploys to compel readers not to align themselves with what might otherwise be perceived as the author’s message but rather to explore a wide range of the possible ideas and provisional meanings his fiction …
Revealing the Artistry of Percival Everett's So Much Blue
As the title of this essay suggests, the focus of this piece is the multiple ways in which Everett brings together his talents as a novelist and painter to create a compelling novel bathed in visual art and shrouded in secrets. Subjects discussed include the carefully designed structure of the narrative, the text's dependence on the reader's (and characters') seeing and feeling, and a conclusion that rests on the revelation of an abstract paintin…
Launching Black American Literature Forum, the Progenitor of African American Review
Joe Weixlmann Launching Black American Literature Forum, the Progenitor of African American Review Although I write from the fledgling days of my retirement, recollections of my twenty-nine-year-old self’s assuming the editorship of what in the fall of 1976 was Negro American Literature Forum are vivid. Three years after receiving my Ph.D., and having completed a one-year term appointment at the University of Oklahoma and two years of a three-yea…
Allusion and Misdirection
In this article, I seek both to sketch Percival Everett’s use in erasure of Chester Himes’s If He Hollers Let Him Go and to illuminate the curious section of erasure that appears under the heading “Àppropos de bottes,” in which the names of Himes and Bob Jones, the protagonist of If He Hollers, appear. I contend that these allusions, along with an array of others, are crucial to understanding the significance of the episode in its own right and t…
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
Reviewed by: Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett Joe Weixlmann (bio) Everett, Percival. Percival Everett by Virgil Russell. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2013. Throughout his thirty-year publishing career, Percival Everett has understood and genuinely appreciated the reader’s role in constructing his texts’ meaning through thoughtful attention to the words and images on the page. However, as his ever-shifting styles, tones, and …
Assumption
Reviewed by: Assumption: A Novel Joe Weixlmann Percival Everett. Assumption: A Novel. Minneapolis: Graywolf, 2011. 236 pp. $15.00. In 2004, Percival Everett commented to interviewer Forrest Anderson that, when the author’s students at the University of Southern California ask him if he can teach them to write a novel, “I say no. I don’t know how to write a novel. I know I’ve done it, and I’ll probably do it again, but every time I do it, it’s bra…
A Checklist of Books by Clarence Major
African American Deconstruction of the Novel in the Work of Ishmael Reed and Clarence Major
Reenacting a mid-twentieth-century debate between Marxists and American Critics, scholars of African American writing during 1960s and '70s often disputed relative importance of attending to a work's content, as opposed to its form. More recently, disagreements have centered on appropriateness of critics' using contemporary theoretical models associated with Europe to help understand and interpret African American texts.(1) At once above and cent…
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
A Call for Papers on Black-American SF Writers
The Dream Turned "Daymare"
Journal Article The Dream Turned “Daymare”: Barry Beckham's Runner Mack Get access Joe Weixlmann Joe Weixlmann Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 8, Issue 4, December 1981, Pages 93–103, https://doi.org/10.2307/467392 Published: 01 December 1981
Politics, Piracy, and Other Games
Journal Article Politics, Piracy, and Other Games: Slavery and Liberation in Flight to Canada Get access Joe Weixlmann Joe Weixlmann Indiana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 6, Issue 3, September 1979, Pages 41–50, https://doi.org/10.2307/466952 Published: 01 September 1979
Politics, Piracy, and Other Games
Journal Article Politics, Piracy, and Other Games: Slavery and Liberation in Flight to Canada Get access Joe Weixlmann Joe Weixlmann Indiana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 6, Issue 3, September 1979, Pages 41–50, https://doi.org/10.2307/466952 Published: 01 September 1979
Allusion and Misdirection
In this article, I seek both to sketch Percival Everett’s use in erasure of Chester Himes’s If He Hollers Let Him Go and to illuminate the curious section of erasure that appears under the heading “Àppropos de bottes,” in which the names of Himes and Bob Jones, the protagonist of If He Hollers, appear. I contend that these allusions, along with an array of others, are crucial to understanding the significance of the episode in its own right and t…
Politics, Piracy, and Other Games
Journal Article Politics, Piracy, and Other Games: Slavery and Liberation in Flight to Canada Get access Joe Weixlmann Joe Weixlmann Indiana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 6, Issue 3, September 1979, Pages 41–50, https://doi.org/10.2307/466952 Published: 01 September 1979
The Dream Turned "Daymare"
Journal Article The Dream Turned “Daymare”: Barry Beckham's Runner Mack Get access Joe Weixlmann Joe Weixlmann Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 8, Issue 4, December 1981, Pages 93–103, https://doi.org/10.2307/467392 Published: 01 December 1981
A Call for Papers on Black-American SF Writers
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
African American Deconstruction of the Novel in the Work of Ishmael Reed and Clarence Major
Reenacting a mid-twentieth-century debate between Marxists and American Critics, scholars of African American writing during 1960s and '70s often disputed relative importance of attending to a work's content, as opposed to its form. More recently, disagreements have centered on appropriateness of critics' using contemporary theoretical models associated with Europe to help understand and interpret African American texts.(1) At once above and cent…
A Checklist of Books by Clarence Major
Assumption
Reviewed by: Assumption: A Novel Joe Weixlmann Percival Everett. Assumption: A Novel. Minneapolis: Graywolf, 2011. 236 pp. $15.00. In 2004, Percival Everett commented to interviewer Forrest Anderson that, when the author’s students at the University of Southern California ask him if he can teach them to write a novel, “I say no. I don’t know how to write a novel. I know I’ve done it, and I’ll probably do it again, but every time I do it, it’s bra…
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
Reviewed by: Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett Joe Weixlmann (bio) Everett, Percival. Percival Everett by Virgil Russell. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2013. Throughout his thirty-year publishing career, Percival Everett has understood and genuinely appreciated the reader’s role in constructing his texts’ meaning through thoughtful attention to the words and images on the page. However, as his ever-shifting styles, tones, and …
Allusion and Misdirection
In this article, I seek both to sketch Percival Everett’s use in erasure of Chester Himes’s If He Hollers Let Him Go and to illuminate the curious section of erasure that appears under the heading “Àppropos de bottes,” in which the names of Himes and Bob Jones, the protagonist of If He Hollers, appear. I contend that these allusions, along with an array of others, are crucial to understanding the significance of the episode in its own right and t…
Launching Black American Literature Forum, the Progenitor of African American Review
Joe Weixlmann Launching Black American Literature Forum, the Progenitor of African American Review Although I write from the fledgling days of my retirement, recollections of my twenty-nine-year-old self’s assuming the editorship of what in the fall of 1976 was Negro American Literature Forum are vivid. Three years after receiving my Ph.D., and having completed a one-year term appointment at the University of Oklahoma and two years of a three-yea…
Revealing the Artistry of Percival Everett's So Much Blue
As the title of this essay suggests, the focus of this piece is the multiple ways in which Everett brings together his talents as a novelist and painter to create a compelling novel bathed in visual art and shrouded in secrets. Subjects discussed include the carefully designed structure of the narrative, the text's dependence on the reader's (and characters') seeing and feeling, and a conclusion that rests on the revelation of an abstract paintin…
Reading the “Slash” in Percival Everett’s American Desert
This article explores Percival Everett’s multi-dimensional use of a concept he has termed the “slash” (i.e., the line that both separates and conjoins signifier/signified) in his novel American Desert. In effect, this slash is a trope Everett deploys to compel readers not to align themselves with what might otherwise be perceived as the author’s message but rather to explore a wide range of the possible ideas and provisional meanings his fiction …
Art (8 works) · History (8 works) · Art history (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (3 works) · Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies (3 works)