TY  - GEN
T1  - Laughing to keep from dying : African American satire in the twenty-first century
T2  - New Black studies series.
A1  - Morgan, Danielle Fuentes, 1983-
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1151527261
AB  - "By subverting comedy's rules and expectations, African American satire promotes social justice by connecting laughter with ethical beliefs in a revolutionary way. Danielle Fuentes Morgan ventures from Suzan-Lori Parks to Leslie Jones and Dave Chappelle to Get Out and Atlanta to examine the satirical treatment of race and racialization across today's African American culture. Morgan analyzes how African American artists highlight the ways that society racializes people and bolsters the powerful myth that we live in a "post-racial" nation. The latter in particular inspires artists to take aim at the idea racism no longer exists or the laughable notion of Americans "not seeing" racism or race. Their critique changes our understanding of the boundaries between staged performance and lived experience and create ways to better articulate Black selfhood. Adventurous and perceptive, Laughing to Keep from Dying reveals how African American satirists unmask the illusions and anxieties surrounding race in the twenty-first century"--
OP  - 189
CN  - P94.5.A372 U5635 2020eb
SN  - 9780252052279
SN  - 0252052277
SN  - 9780252043390
SN  - 9780252085307
KW  - African Americans in mass media.
KW  - American literature : African American authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Satire, American : History and criticism.
KW  - Literature and mental illness : United States : History : 21st century.
KW  - African Americans : Race identity.
KW  - African Americans in popular culture.
KW  - African Americans and mass media.
KW  - African Americans : Intellectual life.
KW  - Noirs américains dans les médias.
KW  - Littérature et maladies mentales : États-Unis : Histoire : 21e siècle.
KW  - Noirs américains : Identité ethnique.
KW  - Noirs américains dans la culture populaire.
KW  - Noirs américains et médias.
KW  - Noirs américains : Vie intellectuelle.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - African Americans and mass media
KW  - African Americans in mass media
KW  - African Americans in popular culture
KW  - African Americans : Intellectual life
KW  - African Americans : Race identity
KW  - American literature : African American authors
KW  - Literature and mental illness
KW  - Satire, American
KW  - United States
KW  - 2000-2099
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -