Van Go's Pharmakon
"Pharmacology" and Democracy in Percival Everett's Erasure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5245751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chauncey Ridley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 101-111 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-4783 • E-ISSN: 1945-6182 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/afa.2014.0015 |
| OpenAlex | W331324778 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Long overdue are scholarly close readings that shed light on the irreverent homage to the Ralph Ellison pervading Percival Everett's Erasure , a novel less about Everett than about Ellison's democratic aesthetics. Narrator/protagonist, "Monk" Ellison, keeps faith with his esteemed precursor's aesthetic idealism until his writing career is on the verge of collapse, his ensuing disillusionment perverting his idealism into vengeful, comically villainous malice against an American public that confines black novelists to the role of feeding its addiction to the "drug" of bestial black stereotypes-a poison not a remedy to an ailing democratic body according to Ellison
Art · Democracy · Epistemology · Faith · Idealism · Literature · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Theology · Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · South African History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |