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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2017.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 American cultural expression that uses oral traditions to convey humor and militancy simultaneously in its confrontation of uncomfortable truths about inequalities and inconsistencies in American culture. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (302 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813052991 |