Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists (Performing Celebrity) - Tapa blanda

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Rutter, Emily Ruth

 
9781644532447: Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists (Performing Celebrity)
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ISBN 10: 1644532441 ISBN 13: 9781644532447
Editorial: University of Delaware Press, 2021

Sinopsis

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.

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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.

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Editorial
University of Delaware Press
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1644532441
ISBN 13 
9781644532447
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
256
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Editorial: University of Delaware Press, 2021
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