"Why are these books here?" asks Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, the writer protagonist of the film American Fiction, as he points to four novels stacked neatly on the shelf of a chain bookstore.
"That's me, Ellison. He is me, and he and I are Black," the writer fumes. "These books have nothing to do with African American studies. They're just literature."
This latter component is what distinguishes the film from its novelistic predecessor: Whereas Erasure has its sights set on political correctness (a very early-2000s bugaboo), American Fiction is largely about politics.
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