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Kuang, R: Yellowface

Autor Rebecca F. Kuang
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 mai 2023

Observăm, încă de la primele pagini din Yellowface, o voce narativă care ne provoacă disconfortul prin onestitatea sa brutală și adesea auto-indulgentă. June Hayward, o scriitoare a cărei carieră stagnează, devine martora morții accidentale a prietenei și rivalei sale, Athena Liu, un star literar în ascensiune. Într-un gest impulsiv, June sustrage ultimul manuscris al Athenei — o lucrare experimentală despre istoria uitată a muncitorilor chinezi din Primul Război Mondial — și îl publică drept propria creație sub pseudonimul ambiguu Juniper Song. Descoperim aici o analiză necruțătoare a industriei editoriale moderne, unde identitatea autorului pare uneori să cântărească mai mult decât textul în sine.

Structura romanului ne menține într-o stare de tensiune constantă, pe măsură ce succesul lui June, clădit pe furt și apropriere culturală, începe să se clatine sub presiunea dovezilor care apar în mediul online. Rebecca F. Kuang construiește o satiră socială care nu menajează pe nimeni, investigând cu precizie chirurgicală mecanismele privilegiului alb și modul în care istoriile minorităților sunt adesea exploatate comercial. Tonul este unul tăios și rapid, transformând dilemele etice într-un thriller psihologic captivant. Spre deosebire de lucrările anterioare ale autoarei, Yellowface abandonează elementele fantastice pentru o explorare viscerală a realității noastre hiper-conectate, unde linia dintre reprezentare și exploatare devine periculos de subțire. Este o experiență de lectură care ne obligă să chestionăm cine are dreptul să spună anumite povești și ce preț suntem dispuși să plătim pentru recunoaștere.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780063323179
ISBN-10: 0063323176
Pagini: 323
Dimensiuni: 156 x 231 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:Internationale Ausgabe (US)
Editura: Harper Collins Publ. USA

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Yellowface cititorilor care caută o ficțiune contemporană provocatoare, ce îmbină satira socială cu ritmul unui roman polițist. Este o lectură esențială pentru oricine este interesat de culisele lumii literare, de fenomenul „cancel culture” și de dezbaterile actuale privind aproprierea culturală. Veți câștiga o perspectivă incomodă, dar fascinantă, asupra modului în care succesul și identitatea sunt fabricate în era digitală.


Despre autor

Rebecca F. Kuang este o autoare de succes, distinsă cu numeroase premii și prezentă constant în topurile New York Times. Cunoscută inițial pentru trilogia fantasy „The Poppy War” și pentru romanul „Babel”, Kuang demonstrează o versatilitate remarcabilă prin trecerea către ficțiunea contemporană și satiră în Yellowface. Cu studii la Yale, Cambridge și Oxford, ea aduce o profunzime academică temelor sale despre istorie, colonialism și putere, adaptându-le de această dată la contextul industriei editoriale și al identității asiano-americane în societatea occidentală.


Descriere scurtă

What’s the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. 
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.
So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I.
So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn’t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That’s what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.
But June can’t get away from Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June’s (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface takes on questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation not only in the publishing industry but the persistent erasure of Asian-American voices and history by Western white society. R. F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.


Recenzii

‘A spiky, snarky, shady, smart, sinister take on white privilege’  — Nikki May, author of Wahala
"Yellowface is brilliant satire--thought provoking, thrilling, and hitting a little too close to home. A must read commentary on the line between representation and exploitation and those who are willing to cross it for fame. Everyone in publishing's wide orbit should read this, and take a long look in the mirror." — Vaishnavi Patel, New York Times Bestselling Author
"YELLOWFACE is a spicy, satirical page-turner that skewers the racism and tokenization in the publishing and entertainment industries, the vanity of social media, and the lengths at which people will go to remain in the glaring spotlight."  — Tracey Lien, author of All That's Left Unsaid
"There’s SO MUCH I recognised (with the odd full-body cringe) about the vagaries of publishing and the ego bin fire of being a writer and SO MUCH I learned about my own white privilege but above all it’s a funny, engrossing read about what people do when they reckon they can get away with it." — Erin Kelly, author of The Skeleton Key
"A darkly satirical thriller about greed, truth, identity, and art—and who a story really belongs to. Reading Yellowface was like riding a roller coaster with no safety belt. I screamed the whole way through!" — Peng Shepherd, author of The Cartographers

Babel has earned tremendous praise and deserves all of it. It’s Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass by way of N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season: inventive and engaging, passionate and precise. Kuang is fiercely disciplined even when she’s playful and experimental … Like the silver bars at its heart—like empires and academic institutions both—Babel derives its power from sustaining a contradiction, from trying to hold in your head both love and hatred for the charming thing that sustains itself by devouring you.” — New York Times Book Review
“A fantastical takedown of 19th-century imperialism that’s as meaty as its title. R.F. Kuang proved her prowess at blending history and magic with her debut series, The Poppy War, and she’s done it once again in this sweeping novel that blends historical fantasy and dark academia…If, as Babel suggests, words contain magic, then Kuang has written something spellbinding.” — Oprah Daily

Notă biografică

Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, and Yellowface. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.


Descriere

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "Hard to put down, harder to forget." -- Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences... Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena's a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena's just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I. So what if June edits Athena's novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song--complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn't this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That's what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree. But June can't get away from Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang's novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.