Crazy Funny


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<p>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. </p><p>Showing how an understanding of racism as a root cause of mental and emotional instability complicates the ways in which we think about racialized identity formation and the limits of socially accepted definitions of (in)sanity it concentrates on the unique ability of the genre of black satire to make knowable not only general qualities of mental illness that are so often feared or ignored but also how structures of racism contribute a specific dimension to how we understand the different ways in which people of color especially black people experience and integrate mental instability into their own understandings of subjecthood. </p><p>Drawing on theories from ethnic studies popular culture studies cultural studies psychoanalysis and trauma theory to offer critical textual analyses of five different instances of new millennial black satire in television film and literature – the television show <i>Chappelle’s Show</i> the Spike Lee film <i>Bamboozled</i> the novel <i>The White Boy Shuffle</i> by Paul Beatty the novels <i>Erasure</i> and <i>I Am Not Sidney Poitier</i> by Percival Everett and the television show <i>Key & Peele</i> – <i>Crazy Funny</i> presents an account of the ways in which contemporary black satire rejects the boundaries between sanity and insanity as a way to animate the varied dimensions of being a racialized subject in a racist society.</p>
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