{"product_id":"crazy-funny-popular-black-satire-and-the-method-of-madness-paperback","title":"Crazy Funny: Popular Black Satire and the Method of Madness - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLisa A. Guerrero\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the ways in which contemporary works of black satire make black racial madness legible in ways that allow us to see the connections between suffering from racism and suffering from mental illness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShowing how an understanding of racism as a root cause of mental and emotional instability complicates the ways in which we think about racialized identity formation and the limits of socially accepted definitions of (in)sanity, it concentrates on the unique ability of the genre of black satire to make knowable not only general qualities of mental illness that are so often feared or ignored, but also how structures of racism contribute a specific dimension to how we understand the different ways in which people of color, especially black people, experience and integrate mental instability into their own understandings of subjecthood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on theories from ethnic studies, popular culture studies, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and trauma theory to offer critical textual analyses of five different instances of new millennial black satire in television, film, and literature - the television show \u003ci\u003eChappelle's Show\u003c\/i\u003e, the Spike Lee film \u003ci\u003eBamboozled\u003c\/i\u003e, the novel \u003ci\u003eThe White Boy Shuffle\u003c\/i\u003e by Paul Beatty, the novels \u003ci\u003eErasure\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI Am Not Sidney Poitier\u003c\/i\u003e by Percival Everett, and the television show \u003ci\u003eKey \u0026amp; Peele\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eCrazy Funny\u003c\/i\u003e presents an account of the ways in which contemporary black satire rejects the boundaries between sanity and insanity as a way to animate the varied dimensions of being a racialized subject in a racist society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLisa A. Guerrero\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race at Washington State University, USA. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eTeaching Race in the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eAfrican Americans on Television: Race-ing for Ratings\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 174\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42160216572039,"sku":"9781032073439","price":97.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7db30110903bb4c6740af7d82aa2831c.webp?v=1733272562","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/crazy-funny-popular-black-satire-and-the-method-of-madness-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}