Post-Racial African-American Writing in Percival Everett’s Erasure

Abstract

As the voice that America now entered the postracial era came out, race was more frequently discussed in literature field. The word post-race symbolizes a shift of African-American writers’ consciousness of race and their own racial identity in their novels in the post-racial era. This paper applies Ramon Saldivar’s definition of postrace to analyze the novel Erasure by Percival Everett, the African-American writer of new generation, revealing the meaning of race for the contemporary African-American writers.