Anthony Stewart

Biographic Data

ID5407528
NAMEAnthony Stewart
GIVEN NAMESAnthony
FAMILY NAMEStewart
SIGNATURESTEWART A
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • Introduction

    Anthony StewartARTICLEAfrican American Review2019

    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 (bio) This marks the third time in the last five years that I have written an introduction or a profile in a special issue of a journal that involved Percival Everett in some way. The first introduction was to a 2013 special issue of the Canadian Review of American Studies that presented a collection of essa…

  • Setting One’s House in Order

    Anthony StewartARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies2013References: 2

    The article argues that Percival Everett’s fiction is not fiction at all, or at least, not just fiction. It is more an attempt to hew out and work in spaces in between conventional literary categories in order not to provide answers but to provoke better questions that might be asked about his work and by extension the works of other writers as well. From here, it is not much of a leap to recognize that the lessons for reading produced by Everett…

  • Introduction

    Anthony StewartARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies2013References: 2

    It is possible that much of what is needed in order to help understand the incomparable work of Percival Everett has been said or more likely written by Everett himself. The challenge is to get more people to read it. This special issue is a modest attempt to contribute to a broadening of Everett's readership. In an interview published in The Canadian Review of American Studies in 2007, Everett made the following statement to me during a discussi…

  • I Will Never See a Black American President in My Lifetime”

    Antony Stewart, Anthony StewartARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies2011References: 1

    The election of Barack Obama could not help but alter what Charles Johnson calls the “black American narrative.” This paper focuses on the endurance of the black American masculine narrative over time, how it may have changed, and what might be at stake for its future in light of Obama's election. The black American masculine narrative brings with it different implications than those in play for “black America” (however defined) more generally, i…

  • The Role of Violence and the Idea of America in Ralph Ellison's “A Party Down at the Square”

    Anthony StewartARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies2009References: 5

    While Ralph Ellison's unshakable faith in the American democracy and his obvious desire to be counted among the great tradition of American (not necessarily African American) literature, have at times made him appear accommodationist to some, and even "dangerous," to use Amiri Baraka's word, to others, this view overlooks the centrality of violence in Ellison's fiction. By examining the role of violence in a key early scene of Invisible Man, but …

  • Uncategorizable Is Still a Category

    Anthony StewartARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies2007Cited by: 2

    Percival Everett does not worry about his profile as a novelist. His 2001 novel, Erasure, is his most well-known novel, an irony not lost on him. An African American who does not presume to write about “the African American experience,” Everett has received more attention for Erasure, which satirizes the relationship between race and the American publishing industry, among other subjects, than for any of his other novels. His varied interests are…