Hypervisible Man: Techno-Performativity and Televisual Blackness in Percival Everett's "I Am Not Sidney Poitier"

In this essay, I argue that the coming of age of Percival Everett’s protagonist Not Sidney Poitier in his novel I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009) consists of his “becoming” Sidney Poitier, as he uses mass-mediated symbols of blackness as the raw material out of which to construct his own eclectic black...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Melus 2014-09, Vol.39 (3), p.135-154
1. Verfasser:	Hayman, Casey
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aesthetics African American culture African American literature African American studies African Americans American literature Blackness studies Consciousness Everett, Percival Individual differences Literary postmodernism Moten, Fred Movies Novels Performative utterances Poitier, Sidney (1927-2022) Postmodernism Race Stereotypes Subjectivity Writing
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