Black Satire
Duke University
AAAS 199S
Fall 2010
Monday/Wednesday 11:40-12:55 am
Languages 08
Mark Anthony Neal, Ph.D.
Ernestine Friedl Building, room 243F
TEXTS
Tuff—Paul Beatty
Angry Black White Boy or The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay—Adam Mansbach
Erasure—Percival Everett
Oreo—Fran Ross
Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America—Bambi Haggins
Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery—Glenda Carpio
Black No More—George Schuyler
The Boondocks: All the Rage—Aaron McGruder
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will examine contemporary and historical expressions of Black Satire in Popular Literature and Culture. Given the social and political constraints that Black Americans were confronted with satire became a fertile arena for artists, writers, musicians and intellectuals to offer commentary about mainstream society as well as the inner-workings of Black life. Using examples from the late 19th century until our contemporary moment, the course will examine how various figures used satire to challenge the status quo and to offer more complex views of Black identity and culture. The course will use the work of earlier generations of satirists such as George Schuyler and Ollie Harrington, as well as contemporary examples such as novelists Percival Everett, Paul Beatty, and the late Fran Ross, cartoonist Aaron McGruder, comedians Dave Chappelle, Wanda Sykes, Chris Rock and others.
Duke University
AAAS 199S
Fall 2010
Monday/Wednesday 11:40-12:55 am
Languages 08
Mark Anthony Neal, Ph.D.
Ernestine Friedl Building, room 243F
TEXTS
Tuff—Paul Beatty
Angry Black White Boy or The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay—Adam Mansbach
Erasure—Percival Everett
Oreo—Fran Ross
Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America—Bambi Haggins
Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery—Glenda Carpio
Black No More—George Schuyler
The Boondocks: All the Rage—Aaron McGruder
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will examine contemporary and historical expressions of Black Satire in Popular Literature and Culture. Given the social and political constraints that Black Americans were confronted with satire became a fertile arena for artists, writers, musicians and intellectuals to offer commentary about mainstream society as well as the inner-workings of Black life. Using examples from the late 19th century until our contemporary moment, the course will examine how various figures used satire to challenge the status quo and to offer more complex views of Black identity and culture. The course will use the work of earlier generations of satirists such as George Schuyler and Ollie Harrington, as well as contemporary examples such as novelists Percival Everett, Paul Beatty, and the late Fran Ross, cartoonist Aaron McGruder, comedians Dave Chappelle, Wanda Sykes, Chris Rock and others.
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