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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"-- Provided by publisher.

Title Black celebrity : contemporary representations of postbellum athletes and artists / Emily Ruth Rutter.
Publisher Newark : University of Delaware Press
Creation Date [2021]
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content 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
Series Performing celebrity
Extent 1 online resource (257 pages)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2021
National Library system number 997012197179405171
MARC RECORDS
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