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Percival Everett’s fiction meditates on a contemporary American scene in which the widespread incorporation of African American culture into mainstream institutions has become an abiding problem for black writers. In Everett’s work this incorporation fractures the very agency, liberal representation, and professional esteem that it is meant to secure. His privileging of black characters whose selfhood is uncannily doubled, serially reproduced, and shot through with liminal indeterminacy is part of an aesthetic strategy that tracks the limitations and possibilities of institutionalized black culture.

Rolland Murray is a Associate Professor of English.

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