Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists by Rutter, Emily Ruth

Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781644532447)

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Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists by Rutter, Emily Ruth

Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists

$41.95
Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists by Rutter, Emily Ruth

Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists

$41.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Emily Ruth Rutter
ISBN-10: 1644532441
ISBN-13: 9781644532447
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Language: English
Published: 11/22/2021
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.63d
By Emily Ruth Rutter
By Emily Ruth Rutter
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Emily Ruth Rutter is an Associate Professor of English at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She is the author of Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line and The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry, as well as co-editor of Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era.

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