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• W2067026581 abstract "The World over Nathan Floom (bio) An Untamed State Roxane Gay Black Cat www.groveatlantic.com 368 Pages; Print, $16.00 Roxane Gay’s first novel An Untamed State begins with the dedication “For women, the world over.” In so many ways, this book deserves to be dedicated to the women of the world. Reading this novel brings with it the awareness of the price society puts on being a woman—especially a successful and powerful one. It illustrates the culture of our society where women are commonly objectified and valued for appearance and status. In this book, it is the brave main character Miri who suffers and pays the price of men. Mireille Duval Jameson is a Haitian American living a life of conflicted nationality and status. She comes from one of the wealthiest and most prominent families in Haiti, marries an attractive and naïve engineer, and practices as a lawyer. Her life is a privileged one. Then she is kidnapped in Haiti by a brutal character called The Commander and forced through a series of graphic and horrifying rapes at the hands of men without consequence. From the start, the reader is shown that this is a book based around the idea of contrast: of the rich and the poor, of the weak and the strong, of the first world country and the third world country, of men and women, and of the fairytale life and the horrors of captivity. The moments of tension arrive when these contrasting elements meet face-to-face: Driving through Port-au-Price is a precarious affair. There are more people than room on the road. There is no order, no patience, no civility…It wasn’t the wild driving that scared me, though. It was the angry mobs swarming our car whenever we slowed at an intersection or to make a turn from one narrow street to the other. No matter where we went, our car was always mobbed at street corners by men and women and children, hungry and angry and yearning to know what it might feel like to sit in the leather seats of an air-conditioned luxury sedan. The Commander himself is also quick to point out the divide the country of Haiti has between its rich and its poor in his final words to Miri: Perhaps next time you are driving through the city in your expensive car, you will look at the city around you instead of looking through the city around you. The Commander has placed his hatred and focus of retribution onto the innocent figure of Miri, who, of course, has no power to change the national situation of the country but is forced to be the one who suffers. Miri is a woman caught in this conflict and tension between contrasting cultures and power struggles. She is kidnapped because of her family’s status and because she is a woman. For as much as this book is focused on women and the unsaid inequality they experience, there is also a class focus to it. Miri’s kidnappers’ prime motivation is the ransom money she will fetch from her wealthy and prideful Haitian father. Taking from the rich is most important to them as it brings closer than ever before to this divide and the desires of the poor who know nothing but the streets they live in. The kidnapping itself is a way to exploit the rich and make money for those who have none. This divide and contrast of class is most noticeable in her kidnappers and rapists, who don’t hesitate to make known the separation of the invisible poor from the highly visible rich. But there is a sense of pity Miri has for them at times, of even her rapists and especially TiPierre: TiPierre did not go to school, never learned to read or write, had no friends. He forgot his mother who loved him, his father, brothers, and sister, his real name. He ran away when he was sixteen, ran to the slums because in the slums he would be safe. Someday, TiPierre said, he would make his way to Miami, where he would be a deejay..." @default.
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