Abstract:Percival Everett's Glyph (1999) is a bitingly comical and theoretically challenging satire narrated by Ralph, a black baby genius, who writes fiction and his own theory thereof. The novel, this article argues, can be read as a satiric commentary on the establishment of African American literature as an object and discipline of literary inquiry. With a rich institutional subtext, the text's playfully emancipatory agenda centers on the expressive principle on which this literary institutionalization was based: the black vernacular. Ralph's lack thereof defines Glyph's programmatic ambivalence as a "black" text that categorically questions the ways we read (for) race.

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一位本土小说家的笔记：Percival Everett 的自助讽刺字形中的制度黑暗和批判性提升

摘要：Percival Everett 的 Glyph (1999) 是一部充满讽刺意味且在理论上具有挑战性的讽刺作品，由创作小说和他自己的小说理论的黑人天才婴儿拉尔夫 (Ralph) 讲述。本文认为，这部小说可以被视为对非裔美国人文学作为文学探究的对象和学科的建立的讽刺评论。凭借丰富的制度潜台词，该文本俏皮的解放议程以这种文学制度化​​所基于的表达原则为中心：黑色白话。Ralph 的缺乏将 Glyph 的程序化矛盾定义为“黑色”文本，它明确质疑我们阅读（为）种族的方式。