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03180aam a22005058i 4500 001 DC128020370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180403010230 008 170417t20182018flu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017016674 020 $a 0813054362 020 $a 9780813054360 035 $a (OCoLC)984973611 040 $a FUG/DLC $b eng $e rda $c FUG $d DLC $d OCLCO $d TFW $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d JAJ $d GL4 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS430 $b .T83 2018 082 00 $a 817.009/896073 $2 23 100 1 $a Tucker, Terrence T., $e author. 245 10 $a Furiously funny : $b comic rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock / $c Terrence T. Tucker. 263 $a 1709 264 1 $a Gainesville : $b University Press of Florida, $c [2018]. 300 $a x, 291 pages ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: A joke to the eye -- (Re)viewing Ellison's Invisible Man: comedy, rage, and cultural tradition in an African-American classic -- Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx: African-American humor, stand-up comedy, and comic rage in mainstream America -- From absence to flight: comic rage in the black arts/black power movements, 1966-1976 -- Fury in the "promised land": comic rage in George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum and Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle -- Hollywood shuffle and bamboozled: comic rage, black film, and popular culture at the end of the century -- Direct from a never scared bicentennial nigger: comic rage in Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chris Rock -- Conclusion: on being pissed off to the highest degree of pissivity. 520 $a The history of African American humor is difficult to piece together. Occluded by slavery's gaps and distorted by racist stereotypes, African American humor has few extant works prior to the early twentieth century. Tucker's study focuses on comic rage, which he defines as an African American cultural expression that uses oral traditions to convey humor and militancy simultaneously in its confrontation of uncomfortable truths about inequalities and inconsistencies in American culture. 650 0 $a African American wit and humor $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Satire, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a African American comedians $v Biography. 650 0 $a Stand-up comedy $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a African American comedians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799115 650 7 $a African American wit and humor. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799436 650 7 $a Satire, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01105681 650 7 $a Stand-up comedy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01131440 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724073920.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020022842.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180403021130.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DC128020370411E887D7D95B97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search