Black Celebrity : : Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists / / Emily Ruth Rutter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Rutter, Emily Ruth,
• Place / Publishing House: Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Performing Celebrity
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781644532478; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754124; 9783110753899; 9783110766479
• DOI: 10.36019/9781644532478
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Emily Ruth Rutter.

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.