The Parody of Postblackness in I Am Not Sidney Poitier and the End(s) of African American Literature

Schmidt, Christian

The Parody of Postblackness in I Am Not Sidney Poitier and the End(s) of African American Literature

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage	113	en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue	1	en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage	132	en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume	2	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Schmidt, Christian
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-10T16:07:36Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-10T16:07:36Z
dc.date.issued	2016	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Analyzing Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier as a multi-level parody, this essay argues that the novel not only parodies its protagonist’s almost namesake’s filmic oeuvre but also comically engages with Everett’s own writing in general, and his novel Erasure in particular. Through detailed discussion of these various levels of parody, the essay teases out the ways in which postblack fiction offers a different, and decidedly non-mimetic, take on issues of race and racism than its predecessors in the African American literary tradition by complicating the relationship between fiction, fictional reality, and extra-textual reality.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2840
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105252-12
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.relation.issn	2198-7920	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Black Studies Papers	en_US
dc.rights	L::CC BY-NC 4.0	en_US
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:810	en_US
dc.subject.field	americanstudies	en_US
dc.subject.field	literarystudies	en_US
dc.title	The Parody of Postblackness in I Am Not Sidney Poitier and the End(s) of African American Literature	en_US
dc.title.specialissue	Current Perspectives in Transnational Black Studies	en_US
dc.type	article	en_US
dc.type.version	publishedVersion	en_US
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