{"product_id":"satire-of-the-new-black-renaissance","title":"Satire of the New Black Renaissance","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow do twenty-first century Black satirists rewrite American ideas of race? This book plunges into the New Black Renaissance – a flowering of the 2000s and 2010s African American culture – and argues that its most potent tool is anti-essentialist satire. The study traces what Baratunde Thurston calls “Open-source Blackness,” an ethos that prizes individuality, inclusivity, and remix.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo map this new terrain, this volume offers close readings of three signature works: Percival Everett’s metafictional \u003ci\u003eErasure\u003c\/i\u003e, Justin Simien’s campus satire \u003ci\u003eDear White People\u003c\/i\u003e, and Thurston’s own multimedia endeavors – his memoir \u003ci\u003eHow to Be Black\u003c\/i\u003e and the playful software experiments developed under the auspices of his company, Cultivated Wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether, these texts show how literature, film, and technology fracture worn stereotypes and invite broader co-creation of (non-)racial identity. The result is the first sustained academic account of Open-source Blackness – of interest to students and scholars in literary, media, and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55283507233112,"sku":"9781032803081","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032803081.jpg?v=1770523246","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/satire-of-the-new-black-renaissance","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}