Matthias Klestil

The politics of versional narration in contemporary African American fiction: Kiese Laymon’s Long Division and Percival Everett’s Telephone

This article focuses on African American versional narratives, analysing the aesthetics and politics of versional narration in Kiese Laymon’s Long Division (2021) and Percival Everett’s Telephone (2020). Reading these recent novels within the context of African American metafictional and speculative literary tr...