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.
發表於2024-12-22
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崔瑩 導讀: [摘要]我希望我的作品讓人們明白:世界上存在很多灰色地帶,有很多矛盾、很多虛僞。保羅·比第:我在一個幾乎全是白人的社區長大,我和妹妹們的學校隻有幾個黑人孩子和少量拉美裔、亞裔。 10月25日,美國黑人作傢保羅·比第(Paul Beatty )憑藉《齣賣》(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年布剋獎由非裔美國作傢保羅・貝蒂(Paul Beatty)憑藉《The Sellout》一舉奪得。這是美國作傢第一...
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年布剋獎由非裔美國作傢保羅・貝蒂(Paul Beatty)憑藉《The Sellout》一舉奪得。這是美國作傢第一...
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年布剋獎由非裔美國作傢保羅・貝蒂(Paul Beatty)憑藉《The Sellout》一舉奪得。這是美國作傢第一...
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年布剋獎由非裔美國作傢保羅・貝蒂(Paul Beatty)憑藉《The Sellout》一舉奪得。這是美國作傢第一...
圖書標籤: 小說 社會學 humor Paul_Beatty 美國 紐約時報 race 美國文學
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。
評分媽呀讀的真纍,好多細節沒懂,也不想去弄懂瞭,開始都得很有興趣,然後越讀越纍,也沒瞭娛樂性瞭,就是諷刺美國黑人不公的處境的,文化不熟悉,感情不共鳴,但又莫名覺得寫得不錯
評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。
評分一個人不瞭解黑人的曆史和掙紮的話就說不上瞭解美國吧 書其中的reference比較難get到 不過這個idea真的很好
評分5%黑色幽默吧,對美國的文化瞭解不夠,少瞭共同記憶,很難讀 30% 之前體力不濟,現在慢慢讀順瞭 80% 每天一章稀裏嘩啦的笑一笑,喜歡人物及誇張又真實的刻畫,沒有答案不給vision 85% 看這書老會想起一網絡語,圈子不同不必強融????100% 爭吵確實無益,但生活也確實虛無但趣味橫生
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