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University Press of Florida Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock

Name: Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock
Brand: University Press of Florida
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Product Description "An important and timely expansion of American racial discourse. Tucker's demonstration of how the comic is not (just) funny and how rage is not (just) destructive is a welcome reminder that willful injustice merits irreverent scorn. "--Derek C. Maus, coeditor of Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights "Adroitly explores how comic rage is a skillfully crafted, multifaceted critique of white supremacy and a soaring articulation of African American humanity and possibility. Sparkling and highly readable scholarship."--Keith Gilyard, author of John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism A combustible mix of fury and radicalism, pathos and pain, wit and love--Terrence Tucker calls it "comic rage," and he shows how it has been used by African American artists to aggressively critique America's racial divide. In Furiously Funny, Tucker finds that comic rage developed from black oral tradition and first shows up in literature by George Schuyler and Ralph Ellison shortly after World War II. He examines its role in novels and plays, following the growth of the expression into comics and stand-up comedy and film, where Richard Pryor, Spike Lee, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chris Rock have all used the technique. Their work, Tucker argues, shares a comic vision that centralizes the African American experience and realigns racial discourse through an unequivocal frustration at white perceptions of blackness. They perpetuate images of black culture that run the risk of confirming stereotypes as a means to ridicule whites for allowing those destructive depictions to reinforce racist hierarchies. At the center of comic rage, then, is a full-throated embrace of African American folk life and cultural traditions that have emerged in defiance of white hegemony's attempts to devalue, exploit, or distort those traditions. The simultaneous expression of comedy and militancy enables artists to reject the mainstream perspective by confronting white audiences with America's legacy of racial oppression. Tucker shows how this important art form continues to expand in new ways in the twenty-first century and how it acts as a form of resistance where audiences can engage in subjects that are otherwise taboo. Review "Important theoretically and in practice: it attacks racism and white oppression in a way that helps African Americans survive the rage without making the white majority feel threatened."--Choice "Facilitates the disentangling of various strains in the black comic tradition, which allows us to demonstrate the subtle and symbiotic relationship between protest and art in figures from, say, Ellison to Beatty, and it soundly traces an aesthetic or sensibility across media."--Studies in American Humor About the Author Terrence T. Tucker is associate professor of English at the University of Memphis.

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Brand: University Press of Florida
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0813054362
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Historical > Social & Urban History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 May 2017
Listed Since: 20 September 2016

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