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Abstract: The article argues that Percival Everett’s fiction is not fiction at all, or at least, not just fiction. It is more an attempt to hew out and work in spaces in between conventional literary categories in order not to provide answers but to provoke better questions that might be asked about his work and by extension the works of other writers as well. From here, it is not much of a leap to recognize that the lessons for reading produced by Everett’s texts translate easily into lessons for reading other, perhaps more problematic and conventionalized signifiers, like the notion of the “African American novelist” or, for that matter, any person who is not “like me,” whoever that “me” might happen to be. In other words, Everett’s novels occupy and draw our attention to the spaces in between conventional notions of literary fiction and equally conventional notions of literary theory.

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