![]() ![]() ![]() Everett cleverly makes this point when Monk introduces himself as an individual with ‘dark brown skin, curly hair, a broad nose’ whose ‘ancestors were slaves’. However, any descriptions of race must ‘conform to expectations of race and its workings’. ![]() As Taylor points out in the foreword, Erasure highlights how readers do not like racial ambiguity they ‘want to know if a character is black’. Monk’s novel goes on to receive a six-figure movie deal, putting him in a moral conundrum.Įverett’s novel is deeply thought-provoking. After picking up a copy of Juanita Mae Jenkins’s bestseller We Lives in Da Ghetto, a supposedly ‘authentic’ depiction of the ‘African-American experience’, Monk is inspired to write a hilariously absurd parody entitled My Pafology. Reviewers and publishers alike are critiquing The Persians for having ‘little to do with the black experience’. Sales of Monk’s latest novel, The Persians, are at an all-time low. ![]() Erasure follows Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison, a self-proclaimed ‘writer of fiction a son, a brother, a fisherman, an art lover, a woodworker’. First published in 2001, Erasure by American writer and Professor of English Percival Everett, is being reissued in August with a new foreword by Brandon Taylor, Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life. ![]()
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