ENGL 190 - Percival Everett: Sampling Dialogic Contemporary Fiction(s)

HC ARHU CD

2 credits
Percival Everett, with over 30 books to his credit, is one of America’s most prolific contemporary novelists, and his latest novel, James, which Everett sees as in “conversation” with Huckleberry Finn, was awarded the 2024 National Book Award, Yet many readers have never heard of Everett, and his work is sometimes controversial in that it seems to undercut (racial) expectations of him as an African American author. This half course will focus on four or five works, as well as interviews, academic essays, and some critical theory that Everett’s works engage. No background is necessary.