This book examines the ways in which contemporary works of black satire make black racial madness legible in ways that allow us to see the connections between suffering from racism and suffering from mental illness.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Black Raving Mad; 1. "When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong": Dave Chappelle, Melancholia, and the Phenomenology of Race; 2. "The New Millennium Minstrel Show": Unmasking Blackface and Black Madness in Spike Lee's Bamboozled; 3. "The Emancipation Disintegration": Suicidal Ideation and Black Liberation in Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle; 4. "I Am Not Myself Today": The Spectacularized Psychosis of the Black Subject in Percival Everett's Erasure and I Am Not Sidney Poitier; 5. "Talkin' 'Bout Negrotown": Black Play, Black Precarity, and The Sovereign Black Subject in Key & Peele; Epilogue: Unmitigated Blackness
