Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights
Derek C. Maus and James J. Donahue
Abstract
This volume collects essays that explore the variety of satiric productions in contemporary African American culture. Often dubbed “Post-Soul,” the artists of this period mark a change in political and aesthetic concerns from those embraced by artists of the Civil Rights period. Building off of Bertram Ashe’s notion of “blaxploration” – or the troubling of African American identity – this volume investigates the variety of means that African American artists have used to trouble the understanding of what it means to be black in contemporary America. The chapters in this collection offers the f ... More
This volume collects essays that explore the variety of satiric productions in contemporary African American culture. Often dubbed “Post-Soul,” the artists of this period mark a change in political and aesthetic concerns from those embraced by artists of the Civil Rights period. Building off of Bertram Ashe’s notion of “blaxploration” – or the troubling of African American identity – this volume investigates the variety of means that African American artists have used to trouble the understanding of what it means to be black in contemporary America. The chapters in this collection offers the first interdisciplinary approach to the study of satire in contemporary African American literature, film, television, theatre, music, visual arts, and internet culture. The essays in this collection work to discern the means by which “Post-Soul Satire” addresses both in-group and external satiric critique of many aspects of contemporary African American cultural production.
Keywords:
African American,
Post-Soul,
Satire,
Interdisciplinary,
Blaxploration
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781617039973 |
Published to University Press of Mississippi: May 2017 |
DOI:10.14325/mississippi/9781617039973.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Derek C. Maus, editor
State University of New York at Potsdam
James J. Donahue, editor
State University of New York at Potsdam
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