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Author |
: Llewelyn Powys |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 1924 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015006567245 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Laughter by : Llewelyn Powys
Author |
: Llewelyn Powys |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 1924 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015058545206 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Laughter by : Llewelyn Powys
Author |
: Bambi Haggins |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813539854 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813539850 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Laughing Mad by : Bambi Haggins
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 |
: Langston Hughes |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2012-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486113906 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486113906 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Not Without Laughter by : Langston Hughes
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 |
: Glenda Carpio |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2008-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199719549 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199719543 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Laughing Fit to Kill by : Glenda Carpio
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 |
: Danielle Fuentes Morgan |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0252085302 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780252085307 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Laughing to Keep from Dying by : Danielle Fuentes Morgan
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 |
: Llewelyn Powys |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 1930 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1043438854 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Laughter by : Llewelyn Powys
Author |
: Danielle Fuentes Morgan |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 2020-11-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252052279 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0252052277 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Laughing to Keep from Dying by : Danielle Fuentes Morgan
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 |
: Denis Johnson |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2014-11-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374709235 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374709238 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Laughing Monsters by : Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson's New York Times bestseller, The Laughing Monsters, is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country's civil war, and, curious to see whether good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair has allowed himself to be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless. Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago. Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back of it all, Adriko's stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is for Nair to meet Adriko's fiancée, a grad student from Colorado named Davidia. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland—but each of these travelers is keeping secrets from the others. Their journey through a land abandoned by the future leads Nair, Adriko, and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new light, but rather in a new darkness.
Author |
: Mel Watkins |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 664 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015032535604 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis On the Real Side by : Mel Watkins
After generations of stereotypes and neglect, this hidden tradition finally emerged before general audiences with Richard Pryor in the 1970s.