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Author Tucker, Terrence T., author.
Title Furiously funny : comic rage in late 20th century African-American literature / Terrence T. Tucker.
Publisher Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2017.
Copyright date ©2017


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Contents Introduction: A joke to the eye -- (Re)viewing Ellison's Invisible Man: comedy, rage, and cultural tradition in an African-American classic -- Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx: African-American humor, stand-up comedy, and comic rage in mainstream America -- From absence to flight: comic rage in the black arts/black power movements, 1966-1976 -- Fury in the "promised land": comic rage in George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum and Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle -- Hollywood shuffle and bamboozled: comic rage, black film, and popular culture at the end of the century -- Direct from a never scared bicentennial nigger: comic rage in Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chris Rock -- Conclusion: on being pissed off to the highest degree of pissivity.
ISBN 9780813052991 (electronic bk.)
0813052998 (electronic bk.)
9780813054360
0813054362
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Author Tucker, Terrence T., author.
Subject African American wit and humor -- History and criticism.
Satire, American -- History and criticism.
African American comedians -- Biography.
Stand-up comedy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Descript 1 online resource
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Contents Introduction: A joke to the eye -- (Re)viewing Ellison's Invisible Man: comedy, rage, and cultural tradition in an African-American classic -- Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx: African-American humor, stand-up comedy, and comic rage in mainstream America -- From absence to flight: comic rage in the black arts/black power movements, 1966-1976 -- Fury in the "promised land": comic rage in George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum and Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle -- Hollywood shuffle and bamboozled: comic rage, black film, and popular culture at the end of the century -- Direct from a never scared bicentennial nigger: comic rage in Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chris Rock -- Conclusion: on being pissed off to the highest degree of pissivity.
ISBN 9780813052991 (electronic bk.)
0813052998 (electronic bk.)
9780813054360
0813054362
Author Tucker, Terrence T., author.
Subject African American wit and humor -- History and criticism.
Satire, American -- History and criticism.
African American comedians -- Biography.
Stand-up comedy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Subject African American wit and humor -- History and criticism.
Satire, American -- History and criticism.
African American comedians -- Biography.
Stand-up comedy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Descript 1 online resource
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Introduction: A joke to the eye -- (Re)viewing Ellison's Invisible Man: comedy, rage, and cultural tradition in an African-American classic -- Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx: African-American humor, stand-up comedy, and comic rage in mainstream America -- From absence to flight: comic rage in the black arts/black power movements, 1966-1976 -- Fury in the "promised land": comic rage in George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum and Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle -- Hollywood shuffle and bamboozled: comic rage, black film, and popular culture at the end of the century -- Direct from a never scared bicentennial nigger: comic rage in Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chris Rock -- Conclusion: on being pissed off to the highest degree of pissivity.
ISBN 9780813052991 (electronic bk.)
0813052998 (electronic bk.)
9780813054360
0813054362
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