LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 21:6 June 2021
ISSN 1930-2940

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Paul Beatty’s New Ghetto: Aversion to Ghetto

Ms. R. Maheswari @Rohini, M.A., M.Phil.

Abstract

Ghetto is a place where a group has been relegated, as because of bias, or in which a group segregate itself for various reasons. In USA, there are many African-American ghettos which are stereotyped as poor and on other hand, house for criminals. Paul Beatty is an African-American author and associate professor of writing at Columba University builds alternative ghettos in his fictions. He is the first African-American to win the Man Booker Prize in 2016 for The Sellout. His works are noted for his satirical and Hip-Hopical writing.

The researcher selects the works of Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle (1996), Tuff (2000), and The Sellout (2015). The select novels are trio of Paul Beatty’s ‘New Ghetto’ as they are set in the suburbs of African-American ghettos. This paper deals with the history of ghettos and aversion to ghettos in select novels. The word ‘ghetto’ is from ghetto which signifies copper foundries of 16th century Venice. The first ghetto was established in 1516 on the site of a foundry in Venice. The Jews were segregated to Frankfurt Jewish ghettos in Germany for identification ease for the Nazis. Ostracism is the key ideology for building a ghetto in Germany.

Aversion to Ghetto

The word ‘ghetto’ is from the word ghèto which signifies copper foundries of 16th century Venice. Cecil Roth in The Origin of Ghetto, a Final Word, says that “One difficulty only arises, that of the transition of ghèto to ghetto. It has already been pointed out that there is in fact nothing insuperable in this” (75). The Oxford English Dictionary’s online version gives the definition for ghetto as, “A part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups.” It also adds, “Early 17th century: perhaps from Italian getto ‘foundry’ (because the first ghetto was established in 1516 on the site of a foundry in Venice), or from Italian borghetto, diminutive of borgo ‘borough.”

The Jewish Ghettos are inception for the concept of segregated living which is known well during the Holocaust. The Jews were segregated to Frankfurt Jewish ghettos in Germany for identification ease for the Nazis.

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