{"product_id":"post-soul-satire-black-identity-after-civil-rights-9781496804563","title":"Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity After Civil Rights","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003e30 Americans\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eAngry White Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, from \u003ci\u003eBamboozled\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Boondocks\u003c\/i\u003e, from \u003ci\u003eChappelle's Show\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Colored Museum\u003c\/i\u003e, this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the flowering of satire and its influence in defining new roles in black identity. As a mode of expression for a generation of writers, comedians, cartoonists, musicians, filmmakers, and visual\/conceptual artists, satire enables collective questioning of many of the fundamental presumptions about black identity in the wake of the civil rights movement. Whether taking place in popular and controversial television shows, in a provocative series of short internet films, in prize-winning novels and plays, in comic strips, or in conceptual hip-hop albums, this satirical impulse has found a receptive audience both within and outside the black community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch works have been variously called \"post-black,\" \"post-soul,\" and examples of a \"New Black Aesthetic.\" Whatever the label, this collection bears witness to a noteworthy shift regarding the ways in which African American satirists feel constrained by conventional obligations when treating issues of racial identity, historical memory, and material representation of blackness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the artists examined in this collection are Paul Beatty, Dave Chappelle, Trey Ellis, Percival Everett, Donald Glover (a.k.a. Childish Gambino), Spike Lee, Aaron McGruder, Lynn Nottage, ZZ Packer, Suzan Lori-Parks, Mickalene Thomas, Touré, Kara Walker, and George C. Wolfe. The essays intentionally seek out interconnections among various forms of artistic expression. Contributors look at the ways in which contemporary African American satire engages in a broad ranging critique that exposes fraudulent, outdated, absurd, or otherwise damaging mindsets and behaviors both within and outside the African American community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDerek C. Maus\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at SUNY Potsdam and author of \u003ci\u003eUnvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is also editor of \u003ci\u003eConversations with Colson Whitehead \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor (with Owen E. Brady) of \u003ci\u003eFinding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley's Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by University Press of Mississippi. \u003cb\u003eJames J. Donahue\u003c\/b\u003e is professor and assistant chair of the Department of English \u0026amp; Communication at SUNY Potsdam. He is author of \u003ci\u003eContemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance.\u003c\/i\u003e He is also coeditor (with Jennifer Ann Ho and Shaun Morgan) of \u003ci\u003eNarrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50416401187090,"sku":"9781496804563","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0f915515-cc70-40b8-a790-8aa52ab7c91a.jpg?v=1764754025","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/post-soul-satire-black-identity-after-civil-rights-9781496804563","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}