Voicing His Objections
Narrative Voice as Racial Critique in Percival Everett's God's Country
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5246792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James J Donahue (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-86 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| 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.2019.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W2921618767 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
In God's Country, Percival Everett employs a variety of tropes from traditional Westerns in order to call out the inherent racism of the genre. In this article, I explore the means by which Everett also employs the narrative form itself as part of his critique. In his use of the first-person point of view, Everett highlights the various forms of racism in American culture while simultaneously demonstrating how that racism was knowingly transmitted through one of America's most popular narrative traditions
Art · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Racism · Sociology · Voice · American and British Literature Analysis · Computer Science · Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies · Gender Studies · History · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |