Emily Ruth Rutter

Gebundenes Buch

Black Celebrity

Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists

Beschreibung

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.   

Autor

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. 

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