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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. |
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9780813052991 (electronic bk.) |
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0813052998 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813054360 |
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0813054362 |
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