Discuss how "arrangement in black and white" relates to satire. focus on explaining why specific parts of the play are satirical. what effect does this have on the text?

"Arrangment in Black and White" satirizes narrow-minded, racist people who do not believe they are narrow-minded and racist.

The main character believes she views black people in the same way as everyone else; it is clear, however, that she is as narrow-minded as her husband, whom she criticizes.

Specifically, she says that she doesn't have a problem with black people and also says that the singer should be so grateful to have this party thrown for him so he can meet all these white people. She tells her husband he should be worried she's meeting the singer because she "doesn't know what she will do" when she meets him.

Her entire demeanor proves she is just as narrow-minded as everyone else.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.