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Author Rutter, Emily Ruth, author

Title Black celebrity : contemporary representations of postbellum athletes and artists / by Emily Ruth Rutter
Published Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Series Performing Celebrity
Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Portraits of Black Fame, or, The Past as Blueprint for the Present -- 1. "MY BLACK BODY THROWN FREE -- 2. "MORE OF A MAN THAN YOU" -- 3. "THE STING OF RACE AND SPORT" -- 4. "THE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF HIS ARTISTRY" -- 5. "BLIND TOM, MUSICAL PRODIGY OF THE AGE" -- 6. "LET THIS BELTING BE OUR UNBINDING" -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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
Subject African American athletes in literature.
African American entertainers in literature.
African Americans in literature.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Racism in literature.
African American entertainers in literature
African American athletes in literature
African Americans in literature
American literature
American literature -- African American authors
Racism in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781644532478
1644532476