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The Deep Read: A Conversation with Percival Everett
Everett will be in conversation with Vilashini Cooppan, Professor of Literature and Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead.
This free in-person event, which will take place at the Quarry Amphitheater on the UCSC campus, is open to the public. Register and see important parking information here: https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-a-conversation-with-percival-everett/
Bookshop Santa Cruz is proud to be a community partner of the Deep Read and will be on hand selling books at this event.
As The Humanities Institute celebrates 25 years of helping students, scholars, and community members connect and work together to change the frame, this year’s Deep Read book, James by Percival Everett, will help us reconsider the frames of reference for the American literary tradition.
Winner of the 2024 National Book Award, James is a reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Everett’s novel is a fugitive slave narrative told from the perspective of Twain’s enslaved character as he fights for freedom and dignity in an undignified world. Together, we’ll consider how Everett depicts the possibility of humanity in this novel about the brutality of slavery, the performance of race, and the value of language and literacy.
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