Studies in Literature and Language
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.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/11123
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