Furiously Funny : Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock /

The history of African American humor is difficult to piece together. Occluded by slavery's gaps and distorted by racist stereotypes, African American humor has few extant works prior to the early twentieth century. Tucker's study focuses on comic rage, which he defines as an African Ameri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tucker, Terrence T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Stand-up comedy.
Satire, American.
African American wit and humor.
African American comedians.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HUMOR > General.
Monologue comique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Comiques noirs americains > Biographies.
Humour noir americain > Histoire et critique.
Stand-up comedy > United States > History > 20th century.
African American comedians > Biography.
Satire, American > History and criticism.
African American wit and humor > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: A joke to the eye
  • (Re)viewing Ellison's Invisible Man: comedy, rage, and cultural tradition in an African-American classic
  • Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx: African-American humor, stand-up comedy, and comic rage in mainstream America
  • From absence to flight: comic rage in the black arts/black power movements, 1966-1976
  • Fury in the "promised land": comic rage in George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum and Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle
  • Hollywood shuffle and bamboozled: comic rage, black film, and popular culture at the end of the century
  • Direct from a never scared bicentennial nigger: comic rage in Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chris Rock
  • Conclusion: on being pissed off to the highest degree of pissivity.

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