“The Jailhouse Baby Blues”, or Literal and Literary Prisons in Glyph by Percival Everett: Allegory, Irony, Self-Reflection, and Socio-Academic Analysis
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2 juin 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufr.5457
- isbn: 9782869062290
- eisbn: 9782869064416
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Jacqueline Berben-Masi, « “The Jailhouse Baby Blues”, or Literal and Literary Prisons in Glyph by Percival Everett: Allegory, Irony, Self-Reflection, and Socio-Academic Analysis », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.5457
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The story is a first-person narrative by a baby genius and is just too clever by far: codes beg to be cracked, philosophy seeks application and interpretation, tidbits on the mores of academia and the vanity of literary research titillate us even as we follow the tale of a kidnapping for scientific purposes. Throughout, the child is a prisoner jostled from one cage to another, from one form of captivity and experimentation to yet another even more sinister ordeal. No casual, leisurely entertainment but an intellectual challenge from beginning to end, this paper attempts to a multi-faceted reading.