Darryl Dickson‐Carr
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407590 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darryl Dickson‐Carr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darryl |
| FAMILY NAME | Dickson‐Carr |
| SIGNATURE | CARR D D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction: Black Laughs Matter
This special issue of Studies in American Humor focuses on African American humor in different media, paying particular attention to literary satire and performance modes of sketch and stand-up comedy. In conceiving this issue, the editors originally wanted to draw contributions that addressed “Black humor,” albeit not the black humor found in mid-twentieth-century works, such as Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961) or Kurt Vonnegut’s many novels. Whi…
The Two Gentlemen of Harlem: Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring, Richard Bruce Nugent’s Gentleman Jigger, and Intellectual Property
African American Satire: The Sacredly Profane Novel
Satire's real purpose, as a literary genre, is to criticize through humor, irony, caricature, and parody, and, ultimately, to defy the status quo. In African American Satire, Darryl Dickson-Carr provides the first book-length study of African American satire and the vital role it has played, and in the process investigates African American literature, American literature, and the history of satire. Dickson-Carr argues that major works by such aut…
Taking the Offensive: The Quest for New Politics in Contemporary Black Satire
In his seminal essay, "The Satirist and Society," Robert C. Elliott writes that ancient satirists' verses were thought to be magical: [t]he ancient Arabic satirist, for example, was the seer, the oracle of his tribe. His enormous prestige derived from his role as magician, for his primary function was to compose magical satires, thought always to be fatal, against the tribal enemy. The Arabs thought of their satires concretely as weapons, and as …
Taking the Offensive: The Quest for New Politics in Contemporary Black Satire
In his seminal essay, "The Satirist and Society," Robert C. Elliott writes that ancient satirists' verses were thought to be magical: [t]he ancient Arabic satirist, for example, was the seer, the oracle of his tribe. His enormous prestige derived from his role as magician, for his primary function was to compose magical satires, thought always to be fatal, against the tribal enemy. The Arabs thought of their satires concretely as weapons, and as …
Taking the Offensive: The Quest for New Politics in Contemporary Black Satire
In his seminal essay, "The Satirist and Society," Robert C. Elliott writes that ancient satirists' verses were thought to be magical: [t]he ancient Arabic satirist, for example, was the seer, the oracle of his tribe. His enormous prestige derived from his role as magician, for his primary function was to compose magical satires, thought always to be fatal, against the tribal enemy. The Arabs thought of their satires concretely as weapons, and as …
African American Satire: The Sacredly Profane Novel
Satire's real purpose, as a literary genre, is to criticize through humor, irony, caricature, and parody, and, ultimately, to defy the status quo. In African American Satire, Darryl Dickson-Carr provides the first book-length study of African American satire and the vital role it has played, and in the process investigates African American literature, American literature, and the history of satire. Dickson-Carr argues that major works by such aut…
The Two Gentlemen of Harlem: Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring, Richard Bruce Nugent’s Gentleman Jigger, and Intellectual Property
Introduction: Black Laughs Matter
This special issue of Studies in American Humor focuses on African American humor in different media, paying particular attention to literary satire and performance modes of sketch and stand-up comedy. In conceiving this issue, the editors originally wanted to draw contributions that addressed “Black humor,” albeit not the black humor found in mid-twentieth-century works, such as Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961) or Kurt Vonnegut’s many novels. Whi…
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · American Literature and Humor Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)