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African American satire : the sacredly profane novel /

"Satire's real purpose as a literary genre is to criticize through humor, irony, caricature, and parody, and ultimately to defy the status quo. In African American Satire, Darryl Dickson-Carr provides the first book-length study of African-American satire and the vital role it has played....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dickson-Carr, Darryl, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Sacredly Profane: Toward a Theory of African American Literary Satire
  • Ch. 2 Precursors: Satire through the Harlem Renaissance, 1900-1940
  • Ch. 3 Channeling the Lower Frequencies: African American Satire from World War II through the Postwar Era
  • Ch. 4 "Nation Enough": Black Politics in the 1960s and the Advent of the Multicultural Iconoclast
  • Ch. 5 New Politics, New Voices: Black Satire in the Post-Civil Rights Era.