A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality--the black Chinese restaurant.
Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles--the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes, but when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral.
Fueled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident--the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins--he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.
https://theinitium.com/article/20161117-culture-bookreview-sellout/ 特約撰稿人 張沅汐(張沅汐,俄亥俄州立大學東亞研究碩士,研究興趣為批判理論。文化研究者。) 2016年布克獎由非裔美國作家保羅・貝蒂(Paul Beatty)憑借《The Sellout》一舉奪得。這是美國作家第一...
評分崔莹 导读: [摘要]我希望我的作品让人们明白:世界上存在很多灰色地带,有很多矛盾、很多虚伪。保罗·比第:我在一个几乎全是白人的社区长大,我和妹妹们的学校只有几个黑人孩子和少量拉美裔、亚裔。 10月25日,美国黑人作家保罗·比第(Paul Beatty )凭借《出卖》(The Sell...
評分崔莹 导读: [摘要]我希望我的作品让人们明白:世界上存在很多灰色地带,有很多矛盾、很多虚伪。保罗·比第:我在一个几乎全是白人的社区长大,我和妹妹们的学校只有几个黑人孩子和少量拉美裔、亚裔。 10月25日,美国黑人作家保罗·比第(Paul Beatty )凭借《出卖》(The Sell...
評分https://theinitium.com/article/20161117-culture-bookreview-sellout/ 特約撰稿人 張沅汐(張沅汐,俄亥俄州立大學東亞研究碩士,研究興趣為批判理論。文化研究者。) 2016年布克獎由非裔美國作家保羅・貝蒂(Paul Beatty)憑借《The Sellout》一舉奪得。這是美國作家第一...
評分崔莹 导读: [摘要]我希望我的作品让人们明白:世界上存在很多灰色地带,有很多矛盾、很多虚伪。保罗·比第:我在一个几乎全是白人的社区长大,我和妹妹们的学校只有几个黑人孩子和少量拉美裔、亚裔。 10月25日,美国黑人作家保罗·比第(Paul Beatty )凭借《出卖》(The Sell...
即便英語詞匯量儲備豐富,若不是在美國的長期居住者,想要閱讀完並享受這本書非常睏難。
评分牛逼!
评分一句話裏有十個形容詞那種 但很chill
评分2017-11-11
评分美國大選的聒噪之後,看這本書正是時候,這書諷刺美國社會的種族問題,不迴避問題,也不推卸責任,不費力地諷刺,太好笑瞭。
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