So Much Blue
The Equanimity of Passionate Desperation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5246168 |
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| Authors | Judith Roof (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-26 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| 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.2019.0002 |
| OpenAlex | W2922429929 |
| Language | EN |
Percival Everett's 2017 novel, So Much Blue, follows the figure of a hidden painting as the decoy that distracts attention from the narrator's disavowed feelings and desires. Recounting the narrator's experiences in a revolutionary El Salvador, a Parisian romantic fling, and the entanglements of confidentiality in his own family, the novel reveals what it seems to hide; the secret is ever and always present
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Feeling · Literature · Painting · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Schopenhauer and Stefan Zweig
| Highly cited | No |
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