Dave Chappelle’s Sticks and Stones as Black Radical Tragic comedy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12370021 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee M Pierce (0000-0001-5591-9813, SUNY Geneseo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 126-143 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462937.2022.2036803 |
| OpenAlex | W4213287986 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 21 |
This essay argues that Dave Chappelle’s 2019 Netflix comedy special Sticks & Stones is a staging of the Black Radical Tragic in which Chappelle performs without resolving the tension between Black revolutionary leadership and the mass-based concerns necessary for collective mobilization. Chappelle maintains the tragic dialectic through two modes of performance: the inscription of Black men and ethopoeia, or impersonation, reserved for the Others. However, that dialectic fails in key points as Chappelle’s Others, particularly Black women, are simultaneously inscribed and impersonated, revealing the impossibility of inscribing Black men against threats to liberation
Art · Comedy · Dialectic · Impossibility · Inscribed figure · Literature · Political science · Theology · Cinema and Media Studies · Humor Studies and Applications · Law · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Disidentifications
In Search of Soul
The Black Radical Tragic
The Black Jacobins
The Racial Mundane
Repositioning Race
Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric
Epaulettes and leaf skirts, warriors and subversives
This spectacular visible body”
The eyes of the storm
Performative neutrality and rape culture in Naomi Iizuka’s Good Kids
Embodied ambivalence
Ironic Performativity
What One Voice Can Do”
Teaching Rhetorical Performance in the Humanities
The 'Blackness of Blackness
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |