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2 juin 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufr.5459
- isbn: 9782869062290
- eisbn: 9782869064416
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Percival Everett littérature de langue anglaise littérature États-Unis United States literature English literature Percival Everett Literary Theory & Criticism Literature American LIT004040 DSBSujets proches
Humor, satire, etc Cartoons, satire, etc Jokes Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc Satire Comic literature Travesty Comic literature Literature, ComicCiter ce document
Fritz Gysin, « The Pitfalls of Parody: Melancholic Satire in Percival Everett’s Erasure », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.5459
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The central text within the text of Percival Everett’s Erasure is a parody of Richard Wright’s Native Son and Sapphire’s Push. This essay analyzes the parodic processes involved in the production of this fake text, traces its fate in the context of the fictional author’s complex life, and interprets that author’s uneasy performance in the disguise of a black folk hero as a melancholic satire targetting the publishing industry, African American essentialism, and the concept of parody itself. Intertextual references to Ellison’s Invisible Man are intended to confound an audience that no longer understands the function of irony and satire.