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Post-soul satire : black identity after civil rights /

"From 30 Americans to Angry White Boy, from Bamboozled to The Boondocks, from Chappelle's Show to The Colored Museum, this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the flowering of satire and its influence in defining new roles in black identity. As a mode of expr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Maus, Derek C. (Editor ), Donahue, James J., 1974- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • "Mommy, what's a post-soul satirist?": an introduction / Derek C. Maus
  • Post-Black art and the resurrection of African American satire / Derek Conrad Murray
  • Blackness we can believe in: authentic Blackness and the evolution of Aaron McGruder's The boondocks / Terrence T. Tucker
  • The lower frequencies: hip-hop satire in the new millennium / Konohi Nishikawa
  • Knock, knock the hustle: resisting commercialism in the African American family film / Thomas R. Britt
  • Dirty pretty things: the racial grotesque and contemporary art / Michael B. Gillespie
  • Percival Everett's Erasure: that drat aporia when Black satire meets "the pleasure of the text" / Gillian Johns
  • Who's afraid of post-soul satire?: Touré's "Black widow" trilogy in The portable promised land / Bertram D. Ashe
  • Touré, ecstatic consumption, and Soul city: satire and the problem of monoculture / Linda Furgerson Selzer
  • "I felt like I was part of the troop": satire, feminist narratology, and the community / Brandon Manning
  • Pilgrims in an unholy land: satire and the challenge of African American leadership in The boondocks and The White boy shuffle / Cameron Leader-Picone
  • Dissimulating Blackness: the degenerative satires of Paul Beatty and Percival Everett / Christian Schmidt
  • "It's a Black thang maybe": satirical Blackness in Percival Everett's Erasure and Adam Mansbach's Angry Black White boy / Danielle Fuentes Morgan
  • Coal, charcoal, and chocolate comedy: the satire of John Killens and Matt Johnson / Keenan Norris
  • How a mama on the couch evolves into a Black man with watermelon: George C. Wolfe, Suzan-Lori Parks, and the theatre of "colored contradictions" / Jennifer Larson
  • "Slaves? With lines?": trickster aesthetic and satirical strategies in two plays by Lynn Nottage / Aimee Zygmonski
  • Satirizing satire: symbolic violence and subversion in Spike Lee's Bamboozled / Luvena Kopp
  • Charlie Murphy: American storyteller / James J. Donahue
  • Embodied and disembodied Black satire from Chappelle and Crockett to Key & Peele / Marvin McAllister
  • Television satire in the Black Americas: transnational border crossings in Chappelle's show and The ity and fancy cat show / Sam Vásquez
  • Afterword: From pilloried to post-soul: the future of African American satire / Darryl Dickson-Carr.