The Content of Our Caricature : : African American Comic Art and Political Belonging / / Rebecca Wanzo.
Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its headRevealing the long aesthetic tradition of African American cartoonists who have made use of racist caricature as a black diasporic art practice, Rebecca Wanzo demonstrates how these...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Postmillennial Pop ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 69 hts / 6 page color insert |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: A Visual Grammar of Citizenship
- 1. “Impussanations,” Coons, and Civic Ideals: A Black Comics Aesthetic
- 2. The Revolutionary Body: Nat Turner, King, and Frozen Subjection
- 3. Wearing Hero- Face: Melancholic Patriotism in Truth: Red, White & Black
- 4. “The Only Thing Unamerican about Me Is the Treatment I Get!” Infantile Citizenship and the Situational Grotesque
- 5. Rape and Race in the Gutter: Equal Opportunity Humor Aesthetics and Underground Comix
- To Caricature, with Love: A Black Panther Coda
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author