Black Celebrity : : Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists / / 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” Wig...
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Place / Publishing House: | Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Performing Celebrity
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
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Table of 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