redoubtable [rɪˈdaʊtəbl]:adj.令人敬畏的
《黄房子》
By Sarah M. Broom
萨拉·M·布鲁姆著
In her extraordinary, engrossing debut, Broom pushes past the baseline expectations of memoir to create an entertaining and inventive amalgamation of literary forms. Part oral history, part urban history, part celebration of a bygone way of life, “The Yellow House” is a full indictment of the greed, discrimination, indifference and poor city planning that led her family’s home to be wiped off the map. Tracing the history of a single home in New Orleans East (an area “50 times the size of the French Quarter,”yet nowhere to be found on most tourist maps, comprising scraps of real estate whites have passed over), from the ’60s to Hurricane Katrina, this is an instantly essential text, examining the past, present and possible future of the city of New Orleans, and of America writ large.
在她非凡、引人入胜的处女作中,布鲁姆超越了对一本回忆录的基本期待,创造了一种娱乐和创造性相融合的文学形式。部分是口述历史,部分是城市历史,部分是对过去生活方式的赞美,《黄房子》是对贪婪、歧视、冷漠和糟糕的城市规划的全面控诉,正是这些导致她家的房子从地图上消失。追踪新奥尔良东部(一片“有法国区50倍大的区域”,大多数旅游地图上却无处可寻,其中有零星被白人忽略的房产)一个家庭的历史,从上世纪60年代到卡特里娜飓风,本书立刻成为了一部必读文本,审视着新奥尔良市乃至整个美国的过去、现在和未来。
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