Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock
Brand: University Press of Florida
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, History & Criticism



Dimensions: 9 x 0.81 x 6 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0813054360
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813054362
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Print length: 302 pages
Publication date: January 16, 2018
subtitle: Hardcover – January 16, 2018
author: Terrence T. Tucker
review: Editorial Reviews Review “Important theoretically and in practice: it attacks racism and white oppression in a way that helps African Americans survive the rage without making the white majority feel threatened.”― Choice “Facilitates the disentangling of various strains in the black comic tradition, which allows us to demonstrate the subtle and symbiotic relationship between protest and art in figures from, say, Ellison to Beatty, and it soundly traces an aesthetic or sensibility across media.”― Studies in American Humor Review "Adroitly explores how comic rage is a skillfully crafted, multifaceted critique of white supremacy and a soaring articulation of African American humanity and possibility. Sparkling and highly readable scholarship."―Keith Gilyard, author of John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism "An important and timely expansion of American racial discourse. Tucker’s demonstration of how the comic is not (just) funny and how rage is not (just) destructive is a welcome reminder that willful injustice merits irreverent scorn. "―Derek C. Maus, coeditor of Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights About the Author Terrence T. Tucker is associate professor of English at the University of Memphis. Read more