Paul Beatty’s The Sellout as Allegory of the U.S. Carceral System
This study looks into Paul Beatty’s 2016 Man Booker Prize winning novel The Sellout (2015) as a powerful literary elaboration on the politics of racial identity. In naturalizing slavery and segregation in current U.S. society—the idea at the core of The Sellout—Beatty deploys racism along a continuu...
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| Language: | English |
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Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN)
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Atlantis |
| Online Access: | https://www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/article/view/789 |