Black Celebrity - Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists (Paperback)

Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian Matejka, and Tyehimba Jess. Inhabiting the perspectives of boxer Jack Johnson and musicians "Blind Tom" Wiggins and Sissieretta Jones, along with several others, these writers retrain readers' attention away from athletes' and entertainers' overdetermined bodies and toward their complex inner lives. Phillips, Allen, Young, Walker, Matejka, and Jess especially plumb the emotional archive of desire, anxiety, pain, and defiance engendered by the racial hypervisibility and depersonalization that has long characterized black stardom. In the process, these novelists and poets and, in turn, the present book revise understandings of black celebrity history while evincing the through lines between the postbellum era and our own time.

General

Imprint:	University of Delaware Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Performing Celebrity
Release date:	October 2021
Authors:	Emily Ruth Rutter
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-64453-244-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-64453-244-1
Barcode:	9781644532447

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