Please join us on Tuesday, November 1, 12-1pm for a "What I Am Thinking About Now" presentation from Rolland Murray, Associate Professor of English at Brown University. His talk is titled, "Not Being and Blackness: Percival Everett and the Incorporation of Black Culture."

Percival Everett’s fiction meditates on a contemporary American scene in which the widespread incorporation of black culture in the marketplace and liberal 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 incorporated black culture.

"What I Am Thinking About Now" is an on-going informal workshop/seminar series to which faculty and graduate students are invited to present and discuss recently published work and work in progress. All are invited to attend and participate.