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The pathology of authenticity: Percival Everett’s satire of stereotypical Black masculinity

January 6, 2022June 14, 2022
by Steven Beattie

Everett’s novel is about a Black intellectual who finds commercial success by writing a pandering, parodic work that gets taken at face value.

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