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''The Deportees and Other Stories'' is the first short story collection〔http://www.theshortreview.com/reviews/RoddyDoyleDeportees.htm White Irish Need Not Apply〕 by Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle first published by Jonathan Cape in 2007.〔http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/roddy-doyle/deportees.htm〕 All the stories were written for ''Metro Éireann'', a multicultural paper aimed at Ireland's immigrant population and explore their experiences. The stories were written in 800 word chapters and published monthly; as Doyle explains in the foreword to the book :- "The stories have never been carefully planned. I send off a chapter to the ''Metro Eireann'' editor Chinedu Onyejelem, and, often, I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, And I don't care too much, until the deadline begin's to tap me on the shoulder. It's a fresh, small terror, once a month. I live a very quiet life; I love that monthly terror." ==Stories== *"Guess Who's Coming for the Dinner", a reworking of the 1967 film ''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner''〔http://www.rte.ie/ten/2002/0301/guesswho.html〕 it concerns a father forced to confront his prejudices when his daughter brings a Nigerian male friend home to dinner *"The Deportees" - a follow up to ''The Commitments'' finds Jimmy Rabbitte, now 36, married with young children forming a new band - this time "no white Irish need apply" and you're out if you like the Corrs. They end up playing Woody Guthrie songs at an Indian 21st birthday party *"New Boy", a refugee from Rwanda's first day in an Irish school *"57% Irish", about a doctoral student who devises an 'Irishness' test for immigrants based around responses to disparate Irish imagery including Roy Keane goals and Riverdance *"Black Hoodie", three teenagers investigate racial profiling in in-store security but get arrested for shop-lifting *"The Pram", a Polish au pair plots revenge on the family who have treated her so badly *"Home to Harlem", a quarter black student moves to New York to research how the Harlem Renaissance influenced Irish literature and to search for his black grandfather. *"I Understand", a Nigerian illegal immigrant is threatened by drug dealers ((online text )) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Deportees and Other Stories」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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