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1 online resource (257 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Performing Celebrity
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Performing celebrity.
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| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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African American athletes in literature.
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African American athletes in literature. |
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African American entertainers in literature.
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African American entertainers in literature. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Racism in literature.
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Racism in literature. |
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2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rutter, Emily Ruth. Black Celebrity. New Brunswick : University of Delaware Press, ©2021 9781644532454 |
| ISBN |
9781644532478 (electronic book) |
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1644532476 (electronic book) |
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