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"In "Approximate Gestures," Anthony Stewart argues that the writing of Percival Everett, the acclaimed author of Erasure and more than twenty other works of fiction, compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart maintains that Everett's fiction challenges its interpreters to question their assumptions, consider the spaces in between categories, and embrace the potential of a larger, more uncertain world in an effort to confront bigotry and similarly limiting patterns of thought. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Stewart proposes that their notion of the schizorevolutionary figure captures the in-between status of many of Everett's characters as they refuse the constraints of the binary, categorical structures that govern so much of human life. "Approximate Gestures" engages specifically with the vexed question of discussing race in Everett's fiction. Stewart frames the stakes of analyzing such subject matter in the writing of an African American novelist whose work rigorously questions critical approaches to race. Requiring readers to engage with black males who are hydrologists, ranchers, college professors, romance novelists, and in one case, a toddler, means entering a world released from habitual frames of reference. Through an examination of a broad selection of novels, Stewart demonstrates the extent to which Everett's characters inhabit "infinite spaces in between conventional categories" and understand themselves as subjects attempting to navigate social and psychological worlds. "Approximate Gestures: Infinite Spaces in the Fiction of Percival Everett" encourages readers and critics to think more deeply about how they position themselves in and engage with the world around them. As one of the first books of literary criticism devoted to Everett's fiction, Stewart's pathbreaking study models a method for reading the formidable body of work being produced by a major contemporary writer"--

Race in literature. --- Everett, Percival --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature and Culture: Literary and Cultural Essays explores how Spanish literary critics from the U.S. and Spain view and study Chicano literature and culture, and reflects on Chicano literature's literary place in 21st century America and its transnational aspirations.

Authors, American --- American fiction --- Fiction --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Authorship. --- Fiction writing --- Writing, Fiction --- American authors --- Authorship --- Tomasula, Steve --- Singer, Alan, --- Olsen, Lance, --- Milletti, Christina --- McElroy, Joseph --- Maso, Carole --- Martone, Michael --- Rider, Bhanu Kapil --- Gladman, Renee --- Field, Thalia, --- Everett, Percival --- Di Blasi, Debra, --- Berry, R. M. --- Authors, American.

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This book examines how African American novels explore instances of racialization that are generated through discursive practices of whiteness in the interracial social encounters of everyday life. African American fictional representations of the city have political significance in that the 'neo-urban' novel, a term that refers to those novels published in post-1990s, explores the possibility of a dialogic communication with the American society at large.

American fiction --- African Americans --- African Americans in literature. --- City and town life in literature. --- Cities and towns in literature. --- Whites in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- American literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life --- History and criticism --- 21st century --- African Americans in literature --- City and town life in literature --- Cities and towns in literature --- Whites in literature --- Mosley, Walter --- Wideman, John Edgar --- Everett, Percival --- Southgate, Martha --- Bandele, Asha --- Thomas, Michael --- Black people --- White people in literature.