Furiously Funny : Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tucker, Terrence T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American comedians-Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Joke to the Eye

1. (Re)Viewing Ellison's Invisible Man: Comedy, Rage, and Cultural Tradition in an African American Classic

2. Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx: Bridging the Gap between Comedy, Rage, and Race

3. From Absence to Flight: The Appearance of Comic Rage in the Black Arts and Black Power Movements, 1966-1976

4. Fury in the "Promised Land": Comic Rage in George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum and Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle

5. Hollywood Shuffle and Bamboozled: Comic Rage, Black Film, and Popular Culture at the End of the Century

6. 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

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Tucker, Terrence T. Furiously Funny

ISBN:

9780813065601

OCLC:

1142522974