Crazy Funny - Popular Black Satire and the Method of Madness

This book examines the ways in which contemporary works of black satire make black racial madness legible in ways that allow us to see the connections between suffering from racism and suffering from mental illness.

List of contents

Introduction: Black Raving Mad; 1. "When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong": Dave Chappelle, Melancholia, and the Phenomenology of Race; 2. "The New Millennium Minstrel Show": Unmasking Blackface and Black Madness in Spike Lee's Bamboozled; 3. "The Emancipation Disintegration": Suicidal Ideation and Black Liberation in Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle; 4. "I Am Not Myself Today": The Spectacularized Psychosis of the Black Subject in Percival Everett's Erasure and I Am Not Sidney Poitier; 5. "Talkin' 'Bout Negrotown": Black Play, Black Precarity, and The Sovereign Black Subject in Key & Peele; Epilogue: Unmitigated Blackness

About the author

Lisa A. Guerrero is an Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race at Washington State University, USA. She is the editor of Teaching Race in the 21st Century and the co-editor of African Americans on Television: Race-ing for Ratings.

Summary

This book examines the ways in which contemporary works of black satire make black racial madness legible in ways that allow us to see the connections between suffering from racism and suffering from mental illness.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa A. Guerrero, Lisa A. (Washington State University Guerrero
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781032073439
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3207343-9
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Black & Asian Studies