Black Celebrity

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African American history
African American literature
African American studies
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artist-entertainers
artists
athletes
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Bert Williams
black athletes
black celebrity history
black stardom
Blind Tom Wiggins
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celebrity
celebrity studies
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cultural studies
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George Walker
Isaac Burns Murphy
Jack Johnson
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literary studies
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persona poetry
postbellum era
postbellum period
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race and class
racial hypervisibility
racial stratification
Sissieretta Jones
softlaunch
sports literature
sports studies
theater and performance
theater and performance studies
Thomas Greene Wiggins

Product details

  • ISBN 9781644532447
  • Weight: 312g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Nov 2021
  • Publisher: University of Delaware Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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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.     
EMILY RUTH RUTTER is an associate professor of English at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She is the author of Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line and The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry, as well as co-editor of Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era.