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Chargement... The Vanishing Halfpar Brit Bennett
  
Books Read in 2020 (128) » 18 plus Female Author (249) Books with Twins (30) Black Authors (138) SHOULD Read Books! (147) READ IN 2020 (171) To Read (20) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Cette saga familiale incroyablement visuelle se déploie sur trois générations. Le point de départ étant Malard, ville fictive de Louisiane où naissent les sœurs jumelles : Désirée et Stella, elles sont claires de peau dans une communauté Afro-américaine, et c'est ce qui décidera Stella à passer du côté des blancs et à quitter le sud pour s'assurer un beau mariage, et une réussite sociale loin de se origines déniées. Désirée elle épousera l'un des siens, s'en separera rapidement pour retourner dans le giron maternel, avec sa fille couleur d'ébène Jude. Séparant les jumelles de manière irréversible. La prouesse de Brit Bennett dans ce livre est de déconstruire le schéma binaire Noir/Blanc. Elle démontre à quel point au fil du récit la question de l'identité et de la construction de la personnalité sont une question complexe, qui tient aussi bien à l'histoire familiale et culturelle, qu'au chemin individuel porté par le hasard. Elle ajoute un éclairage à sa démonstration en présentant Reese, compagnon transsexuel de Jude, laissant apparaître que la question d'identité n'est pas non plus une question de sexe, mais la perception que l'on a de soi-même, le regard des autres, ce que l'on ressens ou imagine de ce regard ainsi que le poids d'un héritage. Autant d'éléments qui pèsent bien plus que la couleur de peau ou la forme du corps. Cette profonde réflexion sur l'identité Afro-américaine et la construction habile des personnages principaux et secondaires signent à la jeune romancière un chemin dans la digne succession de la grande et regrétée Toni Morrison (  ) FredLeger | May 25, 2021 |  Qu'est ce qu'être "blanc" dans l'Amérique du 20e siècle ? Est-il possible de le devenir par sa couleur de peau lorsqu'on a des ancêtres noirs ? Est-ce comparable au transgenre? Comment sortir d'une image d'autant plus dévalorisante que sa peau est noire ? Il n'y a pas de réponse mais la quête d'identité est difficile pour tous les personnages... auxquels on s'attache à défaut de pouvoir s'y identifier quand on est soi-même blanc, dans un pays qui n'a pas vécu de ségrégation. (  ) Domdupuis | Mar 13, 2021 | Includes profanity. For its length, and with as many characters, it does not use the time to familiarize the reader with the players and their setting. The story is fascinating and deep but we hit the ground running, and it takes chapters for us to find our way in this sprawling, multi-generational saga. Two identical twins, half racially marked in features live different lives because one of them decides to pass off as another race. She does this first as a matter of convenience, then out of -what she thinks is- pragmatism, later for other reasons…it’s as if one race entails, necessarily, the exclusion of the other. The issues this book evokes are invisible and probably happen(ed) more frequently than people imagine wherever racial divisions are pronounced. Its language and insight was wanting nonetheless. AAAO | Dec 26, 2020 |
 The Vanishing Half is the fairy tale we need right now to tell us the truth.... All of these events unfold with the inevitability of a folktale or a fable — which is how The Vanishing Half, with its many folklorish narrative extravagances, reads. This book is not interested in literary realism. It is a fairy tale, and it makes no apologies for being so....But within its fairy-tale structure, The Vanishing Half is able to be ambitious with its characters. ...Reading The Vanishing Half at this moment in time, as America protests against the police killings of black people and the police respond with brutality, feels like reading a parable that is wiser and more beautiful than we deserve. One that is built around all the secrets buried in the rotten core of America’s racial history. There is deep truth within fairy tales. And with The Vanishing Half, Bennett has written a marvel of one. A new novel explores the construct of race in the diverging lives of light-skinned black twins, one of whom transitions into a life as a white woman....Issues of privilege, intergenerational trauma, the randomness and unfairness of it all, are teased apart in all their complexity, within a story that also touches on universal themes of love, identity and belonging. “The Vanishing Half,” with its clever premise and strongly developed characters, is unputdownable. Race is much on America’s mind now, in all the myriad ways it shapes our lives, whatever color our skin might be. It also lies at the heart of Brit Bennett’s moving and insightful new novel, The Vanishing Half, the story of twin sisters who choose to live their lives as different races, one black, one white....The Vanishing Half is skillfully structured and filled with richly developed characters who defy stereotypes. By turns poignant and funny, it’s a timely look at the dual nature of race — an abstract construct, a visceral reality — and the damage that racism can inflict.
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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