Erasure: now a major motion picture 'American Fiction'

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Erasure: now a major motion picture 'American Fiction'

Erasure: now a major motion picture 'American Fiction'

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Sadly, in these days of "civility" and identity politics, one can never read this piece too many times: http://gawker.

Erasure is] hilarious, absurd, profound, and disturbing, in ways that couldn’t be more relevant to today’s nominally post-racial cultural moment. Monk reads a review in a major glossy that praises Jenkins's novel for its "haunting verisimilitude". The much lauded PEN winner and Booker Prize shortlisted author Percival Everett is genuinely a master of all of the above. I wouldn’t use the cliché that I was the captain of a sinking ship, that implying some kind of authority, but rather I was a diesel mechanic on a steamship, an obstetrician in a monastery.Language and culture contain and purvey disdain for people of a different colour, gender, sexuality, ideology and faith.

Un libro ricco, stratificato, mai freddo e mai banale, che non rinuncia al sentimento e si legge con grande facilità. It's possibly for this reason that Percival Everett's argument as a novelist is less with individual racists than with the ultimate cause of racism: language and culture. The novel also allows for more detail about Lorraine, their long-time housekeeper wonderfully portrayed by Myra Lucretia Taylor, and plays up the class politics of Monk’s interactions with her. It’s most likely a response to Sapphire’s Push (which got made into Lee Daniels’s Precious, which was definitely “trauma porn” in its purest form, to use a phrase Monk throws out in the film) as well as other street novelists like Zane and Sister Souljah, among others, who were at least guilty by association.It's gotten very good reviews, but I think I'll reread the book at some point, rather than seeing the film. Everett presents swathes of the paper on Barthes that Monk gives to the Nouveau Roman Society, with sample footnotes about hermeneutic codes. This is the story of a black author, artist and intellectual who is greatly respected in small circles, yet has not (and does not seek) fame for his talents. Though he's facing a barrage of bad news, it's the wild commercial and critical success of a book that resembles a Mad Libs of stereotypical racial pathologies that finally sets Monk off.



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