Amuse them and there will be acclaim, hence the bestowing of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) People’s Choice Award on a screen adaptation that’s fueled by wit, sarcasm, and tepid drama.
It’s blatant cynicism—those who aren’t Black are buying Black books that are filled with tropes, cliches, and stereotypes that fulfill previously conceived notions. The Black authors who pander to that crowd for big bucks deserve scorn, too. That’s the driving force in Percival Everett’s book “Erasure: A Novel.”
Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is an intellectual, author, and college professor. He hasn’t written a book that’s made a penny in years. He has a beef. Writers like Sintara Golden are making a fortune by peddling blaxploitation books like “We’s Lives in Da Ghetto.” He’s pissed. So pissed that he strikes back by writing a mock novel in the same genre, under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh. Surprise:
Jefferson’s script weaves in Monk’s personal life: elderly mother , gay brother , budding romance , ambitious agent , and put-upon sister . The irony and ridicule aren’t consistently laugh-out-loud funny, and the family drama is shallow at times, like TV’s “This Is Us.” However, the screenplay does skewer the haughty, enigmatic world of Black establishment literature, where being scholarly, envious, and competitive is a norm and hawking manuscripts a constant challenge.
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