Laughing to keep from dying : African American satire in the twenty-first century /

"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 th...

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书目详细资料
主要作者: Morgan, Danielle Fuentes, 1983- (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Urbana : University of Illinois Press [2020]
丛编:New Black studies series.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctv1b0fvmk
书本目录:
  • The satirical mode and African American identity
  • "The storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake": slavery and the satiric impulse
  • "Race is just a made-up thing": abject Blackness and racial anxiety
  • "When keeping it real goes wrong": vulnerability and satiric misfires
  • "How long has this been goin' on, this thang?" Centering race in the twenty-first century.