Black Celebrity : : Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists /

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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Rutter, Emily Ruth,
Place / Publishing House:Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2022]
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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

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