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'QUEEN' DEALS FLAWED HAND
From: Rocky Mountain News
Date: 20040521
Author:Eric J. Blommel, Special To The News
Alice Randall is a literary celebrity, famous - or infamous - for her attempt to re-tell Gone With the Wind in her parody/revisionist novel The Wind Done Gone.
Her new novel, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, is less a parody than an attempt at exploding black stereotypes. Blacks, she suggests, can be just as brilliantly complex, neurotic and eccentric as everyone else.
How else could one explain the black NFL linebacker named Pushkin X (named after Alexander Pushkin and Malcolm X, respectively) who jokes with lines from Chaucer? Or his mother, the Detroit-born scholar of Afro-Russian ...
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