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.
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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...
评分崔莹 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...
评分崔莹 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...
评分崔莹 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...
评分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...
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A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court
评分挺好的
评分妈呀读的真累，好多细节没懂，也不想去弄懂了，开始都得很有兴趣，然后越读越累，也没了娱乐性了，就是讽刺美国黑人不公的处境的，文化不熟悉，感情不共鸣，但又莫名觉得写得不错
评分讽刺合集233但是这本书的态度真的值得大家反思，现在矫枉过正实在隐患颇多
评分挺好的
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