Lisa A Guerrero

Crazy Funny

Popular Black Satire and The Method of Madness

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the ways in which contemporary works of black satire make black racial madness legible in ways that allow us to see the connections between suffering from racism and suffering from mental illness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781138606487
• ISBN-10: 1138606480
• Artikelnr.: 58054695

Autorenporträt

Lisa A. Guerrero is an Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race at Washington State University, USA. She is the editor of Teaching Race in the 21st Century and the co-editor of African Americans on Television: Race-ing for Ratings.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Black Raving Mad; 1. "When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong": Dave
Chappelle, Melancholia, and the Phenomenology of Race; 2. "The New
Millennium Minstrel Show": Unmasking Blackface and Black Madness in Spike
Lee's Bamboozled; 3. "The Emancipation Disintegration": Suicidal Ideation
and Black Liberation in Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle; 4. "I Am Not
Myself Today": The Spectacularized Psychosis of the Black Subject in
Percival Everett's Erasure and I Am Not Sidney Poitier; 5. "Talkin' 'Bout
Negrotown": Black Play, Black Precarity, and The Sovereign Black Subject in
Key & Peele; Epilogue: Unmitigated Blackness