Unmitigated Blackness is coming to the realization that as fucked up and meaningless as it all is, sometimes it’s the nihilism that makes life worth living.”Īs this passage implies, The Sellout is not an easy ride – its riffs are so baroque, its cusses so ripe, its energy so prodigious that it sometimes leaves you panting by the roadside.īut Beatty is an exhilarating addition to the Booker hall of heroes, and one who has ripped up the rulebook and forced forward our understanding of what qualifies, in the era of Donald Trump and Black Lives Matter, as award-winning literary fiction. It’s the acceptance of contradiction not being a sin and a crime but a human frailty like split ends and libertarianism. It’s the realization that there are no absolutes, except when there are. Beatty’s other works are mostly humorous as well, but Beatty has claimed that he does not view himself as a satirical author. Beatty utilizes stereotypes and parody throughout the story to inject social commentary. “Unmitigated Blackness,” Me tells us, “is essays passing for fiction. The Sellout is a fictitious, satirical novel about racial relations in the U.S. Kafka and Tolstoy bob about in the background, as does Jean-Luc Godard, who is namechecked repeatedly and included alongside Richard Pryor, Frida Kahlo, Charlie Parker and the Wu-Tang Clan in a pantheon of “Unmitigated Blackness”.
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