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William Melvin Kelley
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9782413036333, 9782413044185
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La Croisée
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Quand un couple de Blancs américains devient parent de deux enfants, un blanc et l’autre noir… Double parution pour célébrer William Melvin Kelley. Mitchell Pierce, américain blanc bien sous tous rapports, ignore que son épouse Tam a pris un amant, et que ce dernier est afro-américain. Jusqu’au jour où Tam accouche de jumeaux, l’un blanc, et l’autre noir…« Dem » se traduit par « eux », les Blancs d’Amérique. À travers cette fable satirique et mordante, William Melvin Kelley analyse les rapports sociaux de son pays, divisé en « frères ennemis », et nous livre une réflexion tristement intemporelle.Dem a paru en France aux éditions du Castor Astral. Longtemps introuvable, le voici réédité dans une traduction revue.

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dem
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William Melvin Kelley
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9781984899347, 9781984899330, 9780593293195, 9780593293201
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A searing, provocative satire by one of the most important African-American novelists of the twentieth century that lays bare the abiding racism and the legacy of slavery on the psyche of white America. Mitchell Pierce is a well-off New York ad executive whose marriage is falling apart. He no longer feels any passion for his pregnant wife, Tam, and his toddler son, Jake, has become a disappointment. He feels trapped in an unrewarding and loveless life and though domestic violence is not in Mitchell’s character, it is never very far away. Mitchell withdraws to a fantasy world where he can act out his unfulfilled sexual desires.      Mitchell’s life will irrevocably change one day, though, when a young man appears at his apartment door to pick up the family’s black maid, Opal, for a date. Cooley it turns out is not a stranger to the household. The twins that Tam is carrying are a result of superfecundation–the fertilization of two separate ova by two different males. So when one child is born black and the other white, Mitchell goes on a quest to find Cooley and make him take his baby.     In the tradition of Brer Rabbit trickster tales, dem enacts a modern-day fable of the turning the tables on the white oppressor and inverting the history of miscegenation and subjugation of African Americans.

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