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black oral tradition
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Comic rage
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Furiously Funny
history
Humor
Ishmael Reed
literary criticism
Militancy
racial dialogue
racial divide
radicalism
Richard Pryor
Stand up comedy
Terrence Tucker
Product details
- ISBN 9780813054360
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jan 2018
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 to comics and stand-up comedy and film, where Richard Pryor, Spike Lee, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chris Rock have all used the technique.
Connecting through humor to what is familiar in both mainstream and African American culture, works of comic rage are at the center of American racial dialogue. The simultaneous expression of comedy and militancy enables artists to reject white stereotypes of blackness and also to confront 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.
Connecting through humor to what is familiar in both mainstream and African American culture, works of comic rage are at the center of American racial dialogue. The simultaneous expression of comedy and militancy enables artists to reject white stereotypes of blackness and also to confront 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.
Terrence T. Tucker is associate professor of English at the University of Memphis.
