Black Laughter
Author | : Llewelyn Powys |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Llewelyn Powys |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Glenda Carpio |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2008-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199719543 |
Reassessing the meanings of "black humor" and "dark satire," Laughing Fit to Kill illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed various modes of comedic "conjuring"--the absurd, the grotesque, and the strategic expression of racial stereotypes--to redress not only the past injustices of slavery and racism in America but also their legacy in the present. Focusing on representations of slavery in the post-civil rights era, Carpio explores stereotypes in Richard Pryor's groundbreaking stand-up act and the outrageous comedy of Chappelle's Show to demonstrate how deeply indebted they are to the sly social criticism embedded in the profoundly ironic nineteenth-century fiction of William Wells Brown and Charles W. Chesnutt. Similarly, she reveals how the iconoclastic literary works of Ishmael Reed and Suzan-Lori Parks use satire, hyperbole, and burlesque humor to represent a violent history and to take on issues of racial injustice. With an abundance of illustrations, Carpio also extends her discussion of radical black comedy to the visual arts as she reveals how the use of subversive appropriation by Kara Walker and Robert Colescott cleverly lampoons the iconography of slavery. Ultimately, Laughing Fit to Kill offers a unique look at the bold, complex, and just plain funny ways that African American artists have used laughter to critique slavery's dark legacy.
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2012-03-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486113906 |
Poet Langston Hughes' only novel, a coming-of-age tale that unfolds amid an African American family in rural Kansas, explores the dilemmas of life in a racially divided society.
Author | : Llewelyn Powys |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Africa, East |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Danielle Fuentes Morgan |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-10-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780252085307 |
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.
Author | : Danielle Fuentes Morgan |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2020-11-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252052277 |
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.
Author | : Mel Watkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : |
After generations of stereotypes and neglect, this hidden tradition finally emerged before general audiences with Richard Pryor in the 1970s.
Author | : David Slucki |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0814344798 |
Laughter After will appeal to a number of audiences—from students and scholars of Jewish and Holocaust studies to academics and general readers with an interest in media and performance studies.
Author | : Bambi Haggins |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780813539850 |
In Laughing Mad , Bambi Haggins looks at how this transition occurred in a variety of media and shows how this integration has paved the way for black comedians and their audiences to affect each other. Historically, African American performers have been able to use comedy as a pedagogic tool, interjecting astute observations about race relations while the audience is laughing. And yet, Haggins makes the convincing argument that the potential of African American comedy remains fundamentally unfulfilled as the performance of blackness continues to be made culturally digestible for mass consumption.
Author | : David Pringle |
Publisher | : Games Workshop(uk) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-06-25 |
Genre | : Fantasy fiction, English |
ISBN | : 9780743443098 |
This anthology of stories set within the Warhammer world--the realm of necromancers, sorcerers, wizards, warriors, and fearsome daemons--includes tales by noted science fiction and fantasy authors Brian Stableford (writing as Brian Craig), William King, and others. (July)