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The content of our caricature : African American comic art and political belonging /

"Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head. Revealing the long aesthetic tradition of African American cartoonists who have made use of racist caricature as a black diasporic art practice, Rebecca Wanzo demonstrates h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wanzo, Rebecca Ann, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2020]
Colección:Postmillennial pop.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: A visual grammar of citizenship
  • "Impussanations," coons, and civic ideals: a black comics aesthetic
  • The revolutionary body: Nat Turner, King, and frozen subjection
  • Wearing hero-face: melancholic patriotism in Truth: Red, White, & Black
  • "The only thing unAmerican about me is the treatment I get!": Infantile citizenship and the situational grotesque
  • Rape and race in the gutter: equal opportunity humor aesthetics and underground comix
  • To caricature, with love: a Black Panther coda.