Predicament Of Black Community Life In Paul Beatty’s Novel The Sellout
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Explication, segregation, postcolonial, discrimination, white supremacy, slavery , marginalized, parody, racial relations.Abstract
Paul Beatty is a great American author and also an associate professor at Columbia University. He was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award. This paper shows the explication and deep study of the first American novel to won the Booker prize award by Paul Beatty’s The Sellout . It deals with the slavery system and the segregation of the past black history with the postcolonial perspectives and racism. There is no legally slave but the white people mind set was full of slavery. This novel says about the issues of black people like police violence, racial discrimination and loss of history. Paul Beatty explores the issues faced by the black people through the eyes of subaltern hero, the marginalized unnamed black narrator. He realized the identity of black people and he wants to revolt against the rule of white supremacy. This novel reveals the United States of race relations which revolves around the narrator coming before the Supreme court on the charges of reinstituting segregation and slave holding. Beatty utilizes parody throughout the novel to inject social commentary and racial relations in the U.S.
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