Emily Ruth Rutter

Black Celebrity

Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists

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Produktbeschreibung

Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian Matejka, and Tyehimba Jess. Inhabiting the perspectives of boxer Jack Johnson and musicians “Blind Tom” Wiggins and Sissieretta Jones, along with several others, these writers both revise understandings of black celebrity history and evince the through-lines between the postbellum era and our own time.   

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Delaware Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781644532454
• ISBN-10: 164453245X
• Artikelnr.: 61476547

Autorenporträt

EMILY RUTH RUTTER is an associate professor of English at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She is the author of Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line and The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry, as well as co-editor of Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era. 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Portraits of Black Fame, or The Past as Blueprint for the
Present       
Chapter 1: “my black body / thrown free”: The Legacy of Jack Johnson in
Kevin Young’s To Repel Ghosts: The Remix from the Original Masters         
      
Chapter 2: “More of a man than you”: The Many Faces of Jack Johnson in
Adrian Matejka’s The Big Smoke                                         
Chapter 3: “The Sting of Race and Sport”: Revivifying Isaac Burns Murphy in
Frank X Walker’s Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride                       
    
Chapter 4: “the overwhelming evidence of his artistry”: Wiping Away the
Minstrel Mask in Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark                     
      
Chapter 5: “Blind Tom, Musical Prodigy of the Age”: Unrecoverability in
Jeffery Renard Allen’s Song of the Shank                                   
 
Chapter 6: “Let this belting be our / unbinding”: Reconceptualizing Black
Entertainment in Tyehimba Jess’s Olio                                      
Bibliography                                              
Endnotes                                              
Index