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James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keeble, A. (2025, December). James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling. Paper presented at PERCIVAL - an international conference on the literature and art of Percival Everett, London

This paper considers James within Everett’s famously diverse oeuvre – to date including twenty-four novels, four collections of short fiction, three collections of poetry and a children’s book – a distinctive body of work commonly described as “uncat... Read More about James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling.

The Contemporary New Orleans Novel and/as Genre (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keeble, A. (2025, January). The Contemporary New Orleans Novel and/as Genre. Paper presented at Modern Languages Association annual conference, New Orleans

This paper addresses two related questions. First, whether the New Orleans novel – or any cluster of novels brought together by a shared city setting – might be usefully understood as a ‘genre’ in its own right. The New Orleans novel, I argue, is a f... Read More about The Contemporary New Orleans Novel and/as Genre.

James and Percival Everett's Dialogue With American Literature (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keeble, A. (2024, October). James and Percival Everett's Dialogue With American Literature. Paper presented at ASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present), New York

This paper considers James within Everett’s famously diverse oeuvre – to date including twenty-four novels, four collections of short fiction, three collections of poetry and a children’s book – a distinctive body of work commonly described as “uncat... Read More about James and Percival Everett's Dialogue With American Literature.

Cultural Trauma in Idra Novey's Take What You Need (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keeble, A. (2024, August). Cultural Trauma in Idra Novey's Take What You Need. Paper presented at ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) 2024, Lausanne, Switzerland

Idra Novey’s third novel, Take What You Need (2023), depicts the complexities of a contemporary America whose divisions are often crudely defined. Through a story of ex-step-parenthood, it portrays individual traumas of separation and loss from the n... Read More about Cultural Trauma in Idra Novey's Take What You Need.

Archive, Intertextuality and Genre in Percival Everett’s The Trees (2021) (2023)
Journal Article
Keeble, A., & Harrison, S.-M. (2023). Archive, Intertextuality and Genre in Percival Everett’s The Trees (2021). Orbit: A Journal of American Literature, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.16995/orbit.10552

This article reads Percival Everett’s The Trees (2021) as a novel of racial terror that is both about the reading and interpreting of an archive of this violence and, in some senses, formally archival, too. Drawing on Theodore Martin’s theory of the... Read More about Archive, Intertextuality and Genre in Percival Everett’s The Trees (2021).

Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays (2023)
Book
Harrison, S.-M., Keeble, A., & Torres-Quevedo, M. E. (Eds.). (2023). Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays. Edinburgh University Press

The first substantial and focused critical study of Jesmyn Ward, now one of the most widely read, taught and studied contemporary authors. It includes a co-authored introduction, twenty chapters and ‘Afterword’, moves beyond existing Ward scholarship... Read More about Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays.

The End of the 90s in Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion, Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2022)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2023). The End of the 90s in Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion, Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 64(4), 685-698. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2022.2078179

This article argues that three contemporary novels – Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion (2014), Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room (2017), and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018) – offer correctives to prevalent histories of the... Read More about The End of the 90s in Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion, Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation.