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Journal Article
American Fiction (Cord Jefferson, 2023, based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett)
2024
Overview
The narrative falls prey to a common screenwriting strategy that I’ll call “a condensed life” where a character experiences an unrealistic number of life changing events (or life defining, which is often why this strategy is used) in a short period of time. On his agent’s advice he goes to a Literary Festival in Boston, his hometown, where his presence is overwhelmed by the latest hot writer, Sintara Golden, and her smash hit We’s Lives in Da Ghetto (the title tells it all) (Monk faces a sort of public humiliation and an affrontery to his sense of good art). - Much to Monk’s horror (and equal measure good fortune, as it will alleviate his financial woes), Fuck wins a prestige Literary Award (on which Monk served as a juror) under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh (a reference to the 19th century African American murderous pimp Stagger Lee, who was immortalized in a folk song). In the next ending Monk goes to Coraline’s home to apologize for his behavior with the aim of patching up their relationship, then the camera does a cliché styled major pull out on a drone camera, taking us to an overhead shot of the city.
Publisher
Donald Totaro
