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Percival Everett
Ce volume recueille les communications présentées lors du colloque international « Percival Everett » organisé par l’équipe, à l’initiative d’Agathe Berland et d’Anne-Laure Tissut, en mars 2013 à la Maison de l’Université de Mont-Saint-Aignan.Textes recueillis par Agathe Berland et Anne-Laure Tissut, et mis en forme par Sarah Boulet. This volume gathers the papers given at the international conference “Percival Everett” organised by the ERIAC research center and managed by Agathe Berland and Anne-Laure Tissut, that took place in March 2013 at the Maison de l’Université in Mont-Saint-Aignan.Texts collected by Agathe Berland and Anne-Laure Tissut, and finalized for publication by Sarah Boulet.
- Anne-Laure Tissut Introduction
- Keith B. Mitchell Encountering the Face of the Other: Levinasian Ethics and Its Limits in Percival Everett’s God’s Country
- Marguerite Déon Clichés and cultural icons in Percival Everett’s fiction
- Anthony Stewart Talking About Race, Exposing The Desire for the Post-Racial, and Percival Everett’s Assumption
- Claude Julien Assumption: from reminiscences to surprise, from dream to nightmare
- Isabelle Van Peteghem-Tréard Jouissance in Damnedifido stories by Percival Everett
- Clément-Alexandre Ulff Invisible Fathers: Investigating Percival Everett’s “Lower Fresquencies”
- Michel Feith The Well-Tempered Anachronism, Or The C(o)urse of Empire in Percival Everett’s For Her Dark Skin
- Judith Roof Everett’s Eidolon: The Story of an Eye
- Brigitte Félix “Of weeds and words: Percival Everett’s poetry”
- Claudine Raynaud Naming, Not Naming and Nonsense in I am Not Sidney Poitier
- Françoise Sammarcelli Vision and Revision in Percival Everett’s Erasure
- Marie-Agnès Gay "Wanted: straight words" in Percival Everett’s novel Wounded
- Sylvie Bauer “Private Terbulent Seas”: “painting The Moon” In Cutting Lisa, By Percival Everett
- Gwen Le Cor “At any rake,” angles of “linguistic condensation” and shock in Percival Everett’s The Water Cure: “All this while we play and pain with a language that is private.”
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Assumption: from reminiscences to surprise, from dream to nightmare
Claude Julien
The paper will approach Assumption as an heir of earlier Everett stories, most visibly among the short stories. Describing the novel’s filiation with earlier texts leads to two paths. We will first see how, starting from supposedly familiar ground (Ogden seems not to be a first-comer) the novel leads the reader to a dreamland full of sand pits that culminates with Ogden’s question to Warren “What makes sense in this world?” Secondly, the paper will also discuss the novel from the standpoint of Jacques Rancière’s distinction between “police”, received/assumed opinions and behaviors, vs. “politics”, personal standpoints straying from generally accepted truths and conducts. Such seems to be the novel’s itinerary.
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Université de Tours
Claude Julien, now retired from Tours University, has taught American studies, while African-American studies were his research field. He has been a member of the CAAR board. He organized the first-ever conference on Percival Everett’s fiction, and that took place in France. It gave rise to Reading Percival Everett, (CRAFT no 4) a collection of essays published by the Tours University Press. Reading has gone on since then, as book after book came out.