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Author/Creator:Morgan, Danielle Fuentes, 1983- author.
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Title:Laughing to keep from dying : African American satire in the twenty-first century / Danielle Fuentes Morgan.
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ISBN:9780252043390
0252043391
9780252085307
0252085302
9780252052279
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Publication:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
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Physical Description:xi, 189 pages ; 23 cm.
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Summary:"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"--
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Other formats:Online version: Morgan, Danielle Fuentes, 1983- Laughing to keep from dying. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
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Series:The new Black studies series
New Black studies series.
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:The satirical mode and African American identity -- "The storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake" : slavery and the satiric impulse -- "Race is just a made-up thing" : abject Blackness and racial anxiety -- "When keeping it real goes wrong" : vulnerability and satiric misfires -- "How long has this been goin' on, this thang?" Centering race in the twenty-first century.
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Subjects:African Americans in mass media.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Satire, American--History and criticism.
Literature and mental illness--United States--History--21st century.
African Americans--Race identity.
African Americans in popular culture.
African Americans and mass media.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans and mass media.
African Americans in mass media.
African Americans in popular culture.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans--Race identity.
American literature--African American authors.
Literature and mental illness.
Satire, American.
United States.
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