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