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  1. The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship
    Rethinking Triple Consciousness in Contemporary American Culture
    Published: 2022; ©2022
    Publisher:  Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, Lanham

    In The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship, the author examines how three popular black female authors (Roxane Gay, Beyoncé and Issa Rae) simultaneously complement and complicate hegemonic notions of race, identity and gender in... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    In The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship, the author examines how three popular black female authors (Roxane Gay, Beyoncé and Issa Rae) simultaneously complement and complicate hegemonic notions of race, identity and gender in contemporary American culture.

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781666907155
    RVK Categories: HV 17230
    Subjects: Women in the performing arts; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (253 pages)
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  2. Played out
    the Race Man in twenty-first-century satire
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

    Please let me be misunderstood -- Of our satirical strivings -- Neoliberalism and the funny Race Man -- Ingergrationist intimacies -- The president and his translator -- Conclusion: Beyond the funny Race Man. "Dating back to the blackface minstrel... more

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    Please let me be misunderstood -- Of our satirical strivings -- Neoliberalism and the funny Race Man -- Ingergrationist intimacies -- The president and his translator -- Conclusion: Beyond the funny Race Man. "Dating back to the blackface minstrel performances of Bert Williams and the trickster figure of Uncle Julius in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Tales, black humorists have negotiated American racial ideologies as they reclaimed the ability to represent themselves in the changing landscape of the early 20th century. Marginalized communities routinely use humor, specifically satire, to subvert the political, social, and cultural realities of race and racism in America. Through contemporary examples in popular culture and politics, including the work of Kendrick Lamar, Key and Peele and the presidency of Barack Obama and many others, in Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire author Brandon J. Manning examines how Black satirists create vulnerability to highlight the inner emotional lives of Black men. In focusing on vulnerability these satirists attend to America's most basic assumptions about Black men. Contemporary Black satire is a highly visible and celebrated site of black masculine self-expression. Black satirists leverage this visibility to trouble discourses on race and gender in the Post-Civil Rights era. More specifically, contemporary Black satire uses laughter to decenter Black men from the socio-political tradition of the Race Man"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781978824249; 9781978824256
    RVK Categories: HV 17230
    Subjects: African Americans in the performing arts; American fiction; Satire, American; African Americans; African Americans
    Scope: vii, 180 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references