Black Celebrity

Black Celebrity

Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists

Rutter, Emily Ruth

University of Delaware Press

11/2021

256

Dura

Inglês

9781644532454

15 a 20 dias

435

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Introduction: Portraits of Black Fame, or The Past as Blueprint for the Present
Chapter 1: "my black body / thrown free": The Legacy of Jack Johnson in Kevin Young's To Repel Ghosts: The Remix from the Original Masters
Chapter 2: "More of a man than you": The Many Faces of Jack Johnson in Adrian Matejka's The Big Smoke
Chapter 3: "The Sting of Race and Sport": Revivifying Isaac Burns Murphy in Frank X Walker's Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride
Chapter 4: "the overwhelming evidence of his artistry": Wiping Away the Minstrel Mask in Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark
Chapter 5: "Blind Tom, Musical Prodigy of the Age": Unrecoverability in Jeffery Renard Allen's Song of the Shank
Chapter 6: "Let this belting be our / unbinding": Reconceptualizing Black Entertainment in Tyehimba Jess's Olio
Bibliography
Endnotes
Index
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Jack Johnson; Sissieretta Jones,; Thomas Greene Wiggins; Blind Tom Wiggins; Isaac Burns Murphy; Bert Williams; George Walker; cultural studies; literary studies; African American studies; African American history; African American literature; sports studies; sports literature; theater and performance studies; theater and performance; celebrity studies; celebrity; black celebrity history; black stardom; postbellum era; postbellum period; artists; artist-entertainers; athletes; black athletes; persona poetry; racial hypervisibility; racial stratification; race and class