Collective Memory in P. Everett’s Novel “I Am Not Sidney Poitier”

  • I.V. HCHEPACHEVA Kazan Federal University
  • O.B. KARASIK Kazan Federal University
  • O.E. OSOVSKY M. Ye. Yevseev Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute

Abstract

ABSTRACT

 

This article deals with one of Percival Everett’s latest novels. In his novel, he addresses an image of Sydney Poitier who was an icon of the 60s of the 20th century, one of the representatives of the movement for the rights of African Americans in the USA. The authors of the article conclude that the novel has the same plot structures as movies that Sydney Poitier starred. The main aim of appealing to the film heritage is to present traditional views and prejudices of American society towards racial discrimination and slavery, identity, and race.

RESUMEN

 

Este artículo trata de una de las últimas novelas de Percival Everett. En su novela, aborda una imagen de Sydney Poitier, quien fue un ícono de los años 60 del siglo XX, uno de los representantes del movimiento por los derechos de los afroamericanos en los Estados Unidos. Los autores del artículo llegan a la conclusión de que la novela tiene las mismas estructuras argumentales que las películas protagonizadas por Sydney Poitier. El objetivo principal de apelar al patrimonio cinematográfico es presentar los puntos de vista y prejuicios tradicionales de la sociedad estadounidense hacia la discriminación racial y la esclavitud, la identidad y la raza.

Author Biographies

I.V. HCHEPACHEVA, Kazan Federal University
Inna Vladimirovna Shchepacheva, Born in 1988. In 2013 she graduated from the Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication of KFU, direction: Philology. Qualification: Master. The theme of the master's thesis: "The image of America in the novels of Percival Everett." Assistant of the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature IFMK KFU. Research interests are American contemporary literature, multiculturalism, African American literature.
O.B. KARASIK, Kazan Federal University

Olga Borisovna Karasik, Born in 1977. Doctor of Philology graduated from Kazan State Pedagogical University in 1999, and in 2015 defended her doctoral dissertation. The title of the dissertation is “The Evolution of the Creativity of American Jewish Writers of the Second Half of the 20th - Beginning of the 21st Centuries”.Professor, Department of Russian and Foreign Literature, IFMK KFU. Research interests are American contemporary literature, multiculturalism, Jewish literature of the United States.

O.E. OSOVSKY, M. Ye. Yevseev Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute

Oleg Efimovich Osovsky, Born in 1961. Doctor of Philology graduated from Mordovia State University in 1983, and in 1995 defended his doctoral dissertation. Title of the dissertation "Literary criticism concept M.M. Bakhtin in the modern literary consciousness of Great Britain and the USA”. Chief Researcher MGPI them. M.E. Yevseviev. Sphere of scientific interests is history and poetics of English-language prose of the 18th-20th centuries, literary theory of the 20th century.

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Published
2020-09-18
How to Cite
HCHEPACHEVA, I., KARASIK, O., & OSOVSKY, O. (2020). Collective Memory in P. Everett’s Novel “I Am Not Sidney Poitier”. Utopía Y Praxis Latinoamericana, 25(1), 257-263. Retrieved from https://produccioncientificaluz.org/index.php/utopia/article/view/33697
Issue
Vol. 25 (2020): Extra 7 [Interlocuciones]
Section
Artículos