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The Help by Kathryn Stockett, which is set in the United States of the 1960s when segregation and racism were rife. It centres around a white woman who decides to collect the testimonies of black maids to illustrate segregation, and of the two maids who risk their lives to help her with her project. The novel spent over two years on
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Kathryn Stockett
American novelist
Born in Jackson (United States) in 1969Work:The Help (2009), novelKathryn Stockett is a contemporary writer. She was born in 1969 to a white family in Jackson, in the state of Mississippi (United States). After studying English and Creative Writing at the University of Alabama, she settled in New York, where she worked for several years as an editor for a magazine. She has lived in Atlanta, in the state of Georgia since 2001.
Growing up in Mississippi in the seventies, she was directly confronted with the question of the relationships between black and white people in the United States, and especially in the southern states. She partly owes her inspiration for her first novel, The Help, published in 2009, to this personal experience.
The Help
A polyphonic novel
Genre: novelReference edition: Stockett, K. (2009) The Help. New York: Amy Einhorn Books.First edition: 2009Themes: racism, writing, work, testimony, American society in the sixties, segregationThe Help is Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel. The author spent five years writing it and faced dozens of refusals before her manuscript was finally accepted by a publishing house. This difficulty in getting published contrasts with the enormous success of the novel upon its release, both in the United States and abroad.
This work, through its polyphonic structure, presents side by side the voices of three women living in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962. The first two women, Aibileen and Minny are black. The third woman, Skeeter, is white and questions the rights of the society in which the three of them live. Her project to publish a book of testimonies will bring these three women closer, against all expectations, and will question the basis of the American way of life.
Summary
The novel is divided into 34 chapters, the narration of which is alternately delivered by Aibileen, Minny and Miss Skeeter, with the exception of chapter 25, where an external narrator takes over. The story is set in the United States during the sixties, a period when racism was still very present.
A critical book
