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  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: An Overview of Everett’s Life and Career
    1. To Be (or Not to Be) from South Carolina
    2. An Everett in Motion Tends to Stay in Motion
    3. Five Novels, Four Residences
    4. A Relatively Young Man Goes West
    5. Farther into the City and Further into the Spotlight
    6. After Erasure, a Deluge of Publications
    7. Meta-Everett in Full Effect
  7. Chapter 2: Everett and Menippean Satire
    1. The Importance of Earnest Jesting
    2. Subversive and Degenerative Satire
  8. Chapter 3: Five Exemplary Menippean Satires
    1. The Forms, Topics, and Devices of Menippean Satire
    2. Formal Multiplicity
    3. Linguistic and Philosophical Multiplicity
  9. Chapter 4: Menippean Satire through Tonal Multiplicity
    1. Thematic Heterogeneity
    2. Grotesque
    3. Madness
  10. Chapter 5: The Menippean West
    1. Frontiers, Old and New
    2. Watershed Moments and Historical Wounds
    3. Unmaking Assumptions
  11. Conclusion: A Post-Soul (but Not Post-Racial) Postscript
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index

Page 181 →Index

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

  • Abani, Chris; There Are No Names for Red
  • Acker, Kathy
  • Alighieri, Dante, Inferno
  • Alpers, Paul
  • Amfreville, Marc
  • Amos and Andy (radio and television serial)
  • The Andy Griffith Show (television serial)
  • Aristophanes
  • Aristotle
  • Ashcroft, John
  • Asimov, Isaac
  • Athenaus of Naucratis; Deipnosophistae
  • Auster, Paul
  • Austin, J. L.
  • Baker, Houston
  • Bakhtin, Mikhail
  • Baldwin, James
  • Barth, John
  • Barthelme, Donald
  • Barthes, Roland; as character in Glyph; parody of in Erasure; reference to in Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
  • Bauer, Sylvie
  • Beatty, Paul; The Sellout
  • Beckham, Barry, Runner Mack
  • Bell, Madison Smartt
  • Bennett, William
  • Berben-Masi, Jacqueline
  • Beverly Hills 90210 (television serial)
  • Birkerts, Sven
  • Birnbaum, Robert
  • Black Arts Movement
  • Blake, William
  • Blanchard, W. Scott
  • Blazing Saddles (film)
  • Bonnemère, Yves
  • Booker, M. Keith
  • Bozo the Clown
  • Breaking Bad (television serial)
  • Burton, Robert
  • Bush, George W.
  • Butler, Samuel
  • Callaloo (journal)
  • Campbell, Joseph
  • Cannon, Uzzie
  • Cassill, R. V.
  • Cassuto, Leonard
  • Cervantes, Miguel de; Don Quixote
  • Chappelle, Dave
  • Chernyshevsky, Nikolai
  • Clarke, Arthur C.
  • Coen, Joel and Ethan. Films: Fargo; No Country for Old Men
  • Coetzee, J. M.
  • Cooper, Gary
  • Coover, Robert; The Public Burning
  • Custer, George Armstrong, as character in God’s Country
  • Page 182 →David, Larry
  • Delany, Samuel R., Dhalgren
  • Delgado, Richard
  • Déon, Marguerite
  • Derrida, Jacques
  • Dickson-Carr, Darryl
  • Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
  • Dittman, Jonathan
  • Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Crime and Punishment
  • Eastwood, Clint, Unforgiven
  • Eaton, Kimberly
  • Ebersole, Frank
  • Ellison, Harlan, A Boy and His Dog
  • Ellison, Ralph; Invisible Man
  • Ellroy, James
  • Erasmus
  • Estleman, Loren D.
  • Everett, Percival: and the role of the author; and categorization of his works; and fictional self-representation; and sense/nonsense; and formal philosophy; and painting; and publishing with independent presses; and his relationship to the reader; and religion—Works: Abstraktion und Einfühlung; “Alluvial Deposits”; American Desert; “The Appropriation of Cultures”; Assumption; “Between Here and There”; Big Picture; The Body of Martin Aguilera; “Confluence”; Cutting Lisa; damned if i do; Erasure; “The Fix”; For Her Dark Skin; Frenzy; “F/V”; Glyph; God’s Country; Grand Canyon, Inc.; Half an Inch of Water; A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as Told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid; I Am Not Sidney Poitier; “Meiosis”; The One That Got Away; Percival Everett by Virgil Russell; re: f (gesture); “Rose Nose”; So Much Blue; Suder; Swimming Swimmers Swimming; There Are No Names for Red; Trout’s Lie; Walk Me to the Distance; “Warm and Nicely Buried”; The Water Cure; Watershed; The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair; “Why I’m from Texas”; Wounded; Zulus
  • Page 183 →Feith, Michel
  • Félix, Brigitte
  • Fett, Sebastian
  • Flaubert, Gustave, Bouvard and Pécuchet
  • Follow Your Heart (television movie)
  • Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de
  • Ford, John
  • Frege’s puzzle
  • Freud, Sigmund
  • Frye, Northrop
  • Gay, Marie-Agnès
  • Gilliam, Terry, Lost in La Mancha
  • Gnosticism
  • George, Nelson
  • Gorgias
  • Graywolf Press
  • Gretlund, Jan Nordby
  • Grey, Zane
  • Griffin, Dustin
  • Griffin, Sarah Mantilla
  • Handley, William
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Hemingway, Ernest; “Big Two-Hearted River”
  • Hermes Trismegistus
  • High Noon (film)
  • Himes, Chester
  • Hogue, W. Lawrence
  • Horatian satire
  • Hurston, Zora Neale; Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Hutcheon, Linda
  • Job, Book of
  • Johns, Gillian
  • Johnson, Craig
  • Johnson, Jack
  • Johnson, Michael
  • Jones, Daryl
  • Jones, Jim
  • Joyce, James; Finnegans Wake
  • Julien, Claude
  • Juvenalian satire
  • Kandinsky, Wassily
  • Kaplan, Carter
  • Kharpertian, Theodore
  • Kincaid, James R.
  • Kirk, Eugene P.
  • Klee, Paul
  • Koresh, David
  • Krauth, Leland
  • Kristeva, Julia
  • Lacan, Jacques
  • Larkin, Lesley
  • Lawrence, D. H.
  • Lilies of the Field (film)
  • Lincoln, Abraham
  • Longmire (television serial)
  • Lovecraft, H. P.
  • Lucian; Menippus, or the Descent into Hades
  • Magritte, René, The Treachery of Images
  • Maniez, Claire
  • Maugham, W. Somerset, Of Human Bondage
  • McCarthy, Cormac, No Country for Old Men
  • McConkey-Pirie, Caitlin
  • McCrae, Fiona
  • McMillan, Terry
  • McVeigh, Stephen
  • Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick
  • Menippean satire; definitions of; digression as trait of; formal multiplicity as trait of; historical development of; grotesque as trait of; linguistic/philosophical multiplicity as trait of; madness as trait of; and the mythology of the American West; thematic heterogeneity as trait of; tonal multiplicity as trait of; and Wittgenstein. See also satire
  • Page 184 →Menippus of Gadara
  • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
  • metafiction/metanarrative
  • Millet, Lydia
  • Mitchell, Keith
  • Mookerjee, Robin
  • Moore, G. E.
  • Morgan, Danielle Fuentes
  • Morrison, Toni, Song of Solomon
  • Mosley, Walter
  • Mullins, Matthew
  • Munby, Jonathan
  • Murphy, Eddie
  • Musgrave David
  • Muyumba, Walton
  • Native Americans; Arapahoe (Wind River Reservation); Plata (fictional); Shoshone (Wind River Reservation); Sioux (Lakota);
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich
  • O’Brien, Flann (Brian O’Nolan)
  • ordinary language philosophy
  • Our American Cousin (play)
  • Pacquet-Deyris, Anne-Marie
  • Palahniuk, Chuck, Fight Club
  • Parker, Charlie
  • parody; of literary theory; of philosophy; of the Western
  • Picasso, Pablo, Guernica
  • Plato
  • Poe, Edgar Allan, “The Business Man”
  • Poitier, Sidney; fictional depiction of
  • Popeye (cartoon character)
  • Porter, Lavelle
  • post-soul
  • Powell, Bud, as character in Suder
  • Protestant work ethic
  • Pryor, Richard
  • Pynchon, Thomas; The Crying of Lot; Gravity’s Rainbow
  • quest narratives
  • Rabelais, François
  • race: and labeling of Everett’s work; as theme in Everett’s fiction
  • Ramsey, William
  • Reed, Ishmael
  • Relihan, Jodi
  • Rochberg, Francesca
  • Roof, Judith
  • Rossari, Marco
  • Roth, Philip
  • Rushdie, Salman, Midnight’s Children
  • Russell, Bertrand
  • Russett, Margaret
  • Rutter, Emily
  • Sammarcelli, Françoise
  • satire; degenerative/subversive form of. See also Menippean satire
  • Sayles, John. Films: Lone Star
  • Schmidt, Christian
  • Schur, Richard
  • Searchers, The (film)
  • Seinfeld, Jerry
  • Senna, Danzy
  • Shepard, Matthew
  • Socrates
  • Page 185 →South, the; and Everett’s relationship to
  • South Carolina; and Everett’s relationship to
  • Stein, Gertrude
  • Sterne, Laurence
  • Stewart, Anthony
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  • Styron, William
  • Swift, Jonathan; Gulliver’s Travels; A Tale of a Tub
  • Taft, William Howard
  • They Died with Their Boots On (film)
  • Thomas, Clarence
  • Thurmond, Strom; fictional representation of
  • Tissut, Anne-Laure
  • Trump, Donald
  • Turner, Nat
  • Turner, Ted; fictional depiction of
  • Twain, Mark; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Ulff, Clément-Alexandre
  • Vander, Robin G.
  • Virgil
  • Voltaire, Candide
  • Von Mossner, Alexa Weik
  • Walker, Alice; The Color Purple
  • Wallace, David Foster; Infinite Jest
  • Wayne, John
  • Weeds (television serial)
  • Weinbrot, Howard
  • Weisenburger, Steven
  • Weixlmann, Joe
  • Welsh, Irvine, Trainspotting
  • West, the: and Everett’s identification with; as fictional setting; and the frontier myth
  • Westworld (film and television serial)
  • Whitehead, Colson, Sag Harbor
  • Willard, Thomas
  • Willis, Sharon
  • Winfrey, Oprah
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig; as fictional character; and synoptic analysis
  • Worringer, Wilhelm
  • Wounded Knee incident; fictional depiction in Watershed
  • Wright, Richard, Native Son
  • Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi (fictional place)
  • Young, Kevin, The Grey Album
  • Yu, Charles
  • Zimmer, Dirk

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