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发表于2025-02-27
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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, 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.
虽然有很多因为背景知识空白和单词量的苍白没太明白 也不影响我觉得这是本好书。种族话题并不鲜见 但第一次读到用反向歧视的角度来展开很尖锐但却幽默 非常幽默 用看似不可能的情节来揭示种族歧视的消失只是幻想(黑人发起隔离运动 黑人因为蓄奴被送上最高法院)。栩栩如生的每个人 不断有发人深省的诘问。有中文版我一定再读一遍。
评分种西瓜还是重大麻 是个哲学命题
评分2017-11-11
评分段子/典故太多要跟上真的好累【……虽然是讽刺得很过火很好笑啦……
评分英语水平有限所以只能硬着头皮啃完了这本书,全篇重点讽刺种族歧视,有些部分挺有趣的,但大部分的描写用的词汇都太生僻了而且好多native jokes,所以并不能完全get。如果有中文译本可能阅读感受会好很多吧
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...
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...
The Sellout pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025