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Auteur(s) : Tucker, Terrence T.
Titre(s) : Furiously funny [Texte imprimé] : comic rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock / Terrence T. Tucker
Publication : Gainesville : University press of Florida, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-291 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-278) and index
The history of African American humor is difficult to piece together. Occluded by
slavery's gaps and distorted by racist stereotypes, African American humor has few
extant works prior to the early twentieth century. Tucker's study focuses on comic
rage, which he defines as an African American cultural expression that uses oral traditions
to convey humor and militancy simultaneously in its confrontation of uncomfortable
truths about inequalities and inconsistencies in American culture
Sujet(s) : Humour noir américain -- 20e siècle
Acteurs noirs américains -- 20e siècle
Spectacles solo -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780813054360. - ISBN 0813054362 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45488166n
Notice n° :
FRBNF45488166
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction : a joke to the eye ; (Re)viewing Ellison's Invisible man : comedy,
rage, and cultural tradition in an African American classic ; Dick Gregory, Moms
Mabley, and Redd Foxx : bridging the gap between comedy, rage, and race ; From Absence
to Flight : the appearance of comic rage in the black arts and black power movements,
1966-1976 ; Fury in the "promised land" : comic rage in George C. Wolfe's The colored
museum and Paul Beatty's The white boy shuffle ; Hollywood shuffle and Bamboozled
: comic rage, black film, and popular culture at the end of the century ; Direct
from a never scared bicentennial nigger : comic rage in the work of Richard Pryor,
Whoopi Goldberg, and Chris Rock ; Conclusion : on being pissed off to the highest
degree of pissivity.