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Furiously Funny - Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock (Paperback)
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Furiously Funny - Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock (Paperback)
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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.In Furiously Funny, Tucker finds that comic
rage developed from black oral tradition and first shows up in
literature by George Schuyler and Ralph Ellison shortly after World
War II. He examines its role in novels and plays, following the
growth of the expression into comics and stand-up comedy and film,
where Richard Pryor, Spike Lee, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chris Rock
have all used the technique. Their work, Tucker argues, shares a
comic vision that centralizes the African American experience and
realigns racial discourse through an unequivocal frustration at
white perceptions of blackness. They perpetuate images of black
culture that run the risk of confirming stereotypes as a means to
ridicule whites for allowing those destructive depictions to
reinforce racist hierarchies. At the center of comic rage, then, is
a full-throated embrace of African American folk life and cultural
traditions that have emerged in defiance of white hegemony's
attempts to devalue, exploit, or distort those traditions. The
simultaneous expression of comedy and militancy enables artists to
reject the mainstream perspective by confronting white audiences
with America's legacy of racial oppression. Tucker shows how this
important art form continues to expand in new ways in the
twenty-first century and how it acts as a form of resistance where
audiences can engage in subjects that are otherwise taboo.
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