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Author : Jessie Redmon Fauset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780404002572
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Comedy, American Style written by Jessie Redmon Fauset and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jessie Redmon Fauset
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486493210
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Comedy: American Style written by Jessie Redmon Fauset and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Dover edition, first published in 2013, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Frederick A. Stokes, New York, in 1933."
Author : Jessie Redmon Fauset
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486843505
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book There Is Confusion written by Jessie Redmon Fauset and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important book" — The New York Times. Set in Philadelphia a century ago, this novel by a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance explores the struggle for social equality as experienced by members of the black middle class.
Author : Yael Kohen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374287236
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)
Download or read book We Killed written by Yael Kohen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kohen assembles America's most prominent comediennes to piece together an oral history about the revolution that happened to (and by) women in American comedy.
Author : Jessie Redmon Fauset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781639237258
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Comedy written by Jessie Redmon Fauset and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ironically titled tale by an influential figure in African-American literature explores the tragic effects of color prejudice and self-hatred. Jessie Redmon Fauset's 1933 novel paints a haunting portrait of internalized racism with its depiction of a domineering mother whose determination for her children to pass as white leads to devastating results for the entire family. African-American editor, poet, essayist, and novelist Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance. An editor of the NAACP magazine The Crisis, she was also an editor and co-author of the African-American children's magazine, The Brownies' Book. Her fourth and final novel, Comedy: American Style, features vivid characterizations and enduring themes that continue to resonate with modern readers.
Author : Kliph Nesteroff
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802190863
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Comedians written by Kliph Nesteroff and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Funny [and] fascinating . . . If you’re a comedy nerd you’ll love this book.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, National Post, and Splitsider Based on over two hundred original interviews and extensive archival research, this groundbreaking work is a narrative exploration of the way comedians have reflected, shaped, and changed American culture over the past one hundred years. Starting with the vaudeville circuit at the turn of the last century, the book introduces the first stand-up comedian—an emcee who abandoned physical shtick for straight jokes. After the repeal of Prohibition, Mafia-run supper clubs replaced speakeasies, and mobsters replaced vaudeville impresarios as the comedian’s primary employer. In the 1950s, the late-night talk show brought stand-up to a wide public, while Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, and Jonathan Winters attacked conformity and staged a comedy rebellion in coffeehouses. From comedy’s part in the civil rights movement and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, to the first comedy clubs of the 1970s and the cocaine-fueled comedy boom of the 1980s, The Comedians culminates with a new era of media-driven celebrity in the twenty-first century. “Entertaining and carefully documented . . . jaw-dropping anecdotes . . . This book is a real treat.” —Merrill Markoe, TheWall Street Journal
Author : Jessie Redmon Fauset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781639237371
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Comedy American Style written by Jessie Redmon Fauset and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ironically titled tale by an influential figure in African-American literature explores the tragic effects of color prejudice and self-hatred. Jessie Redmon Fauset's 1933 novel paints a haunting portrait of internalized racism with its depiction of a domineering mother whose determination for her children to pass as white leads to devastating results for the entire family. African-American editor, poet, essayist, and novelist Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance. An editor of the NAACP magazine The Crisis, she was also an editor and co-author of the African-American children's magazine, The Brownies' Book. Her fourth and final novel, Comedy: American Style, features vivid characterizations and enduring themes that continue to resonate with modern readers.
Author : Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813548322
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Comedy: American Style written by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset's fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family's destructionùthe story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage. Originally published in 1933, this intense narrative stands the test of time and continues to raise compelling, disturbing, and still contemporary themes of color prejudice and racial self-hatred. Several of today's bestselling novelists echo subject matter first visited in Fauset's commanding work, which overflows with rich, vivid, and complex characters who explore questions of color, passing, and black identity. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson's introduction places this literary classic in both the new modernist and transatlantic contexts and will be embraced by those interested in earlytwentieth-century women writers, novels about passing, the Harlem Renaissance, the black/white divide, and diaspora studies. Selected essays and poems penned by Fauset are also included, among them "Yarrow Revisited" and "Oriflamme," which help highlight the full canon of her extraordinary contribution to literature and provide contextual background to the novel.
Author : Lynne Tillman
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593763174
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)
Download or read book American Genius, A Comedy written by Lynne Tillman and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grand and minute, elegiac and hilarious, Lynne Tillman expands the possibilities of the American novel in this dazzling read about a former historian ruminating on her own life and the lives of others--named a best book of the century by Vulture. In the hypnotic, masterful American Genius, A Comedy, a former historian spending time in a residential home, mental institute, artist’s colony, or sanitarium, is spinning tales of her life and ruminating on her many and varied preoccupations: chair design, textiles, pet deaths, family trauma, a lost brother, the Manson family, the Zulu alphabet, loneliness, memory, and sensitive skin--and what “sensitivity” means in our culture and society. Showing what might happen if Jane Austen were writing in 21st-century America, Tillman fashions a microcosm of American democracy: a scholarly colony functioning like Melville's Pequod. All this is folded into the narrator's memories and emotional life, culminating in a seance that may offer escape and transcendence--or perhaps nothing at all. This new edition of a contemporary classic features an introduction by novelist Lucy Ives.
Author : Harold Lloyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book An American Comedy written by Harold Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jessie Redmon Fauset
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486782778
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Chinaberry Tree written by Jessie Redmon Fauset and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the tranquil setting of a small New Jersey town in the early 1900s, this novel by a noted Harlem Renaissance author explores tempestuous issues that range from racial identity to adultery, incest, and deception.
Author : Agnes Heller
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739112465
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Immortal Comedy written by Agnes Heller and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first attempt to think philosophically about the comic phenomenon in literature, art, and life. Working across a substantial collection of comic works author Agnes Heller makes seminal observations on the comic in the work of both classical and contemporary figures. Whether she's discussing Shakespeare, Kafka, Rabelais, or the paintings of Brueghel and Daumier Heller's Immortal Comedy makes a characteristic contribution to modern thought across the humanities.
Author : Jimmy O. Yang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780306921865
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)
Download or read book How to American written by Jimmy O. Yang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from the popular HBO series Silicon Valley shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood. "I turned down a job in finance to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. My dad thought I was crazy. But I figured it was better to disappoint my parents for a few years than to disappoint myself for the rest of my life. I had to disappoint them in order to pursue what I loved. That was the only way to have my Chinese turnip cake and eat an American apple pie too." Jimmy O. Yang is a standup comedian, film and TV actor and fan favorite as the character Jian Yang from the popular HBO series Silicon Valley. In How to American, he shares his story of growing up as a Chinese immigrant who pursued a Hollywood career against the wishes of his parents: Yang arrived in Los Angeles from Hong Kong at age 13, learned English by watching BET RapCity for three hours a day, and worked as a strip club DJ while pursuing his comedy career. He chronicles a near deportation episode during a college trip Tijuana to finally becoming a proud US citizen ten years later. Featuring those and many other hilarious stories, while sharing some hard-earned lessons, How to American mocks stereotypes while offering tongue in cheek advice on pursuing the American dreams of fame, fortune, and strippers.
Author : William Paul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231056816
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (568 download)
Download or read book Ernst Lubitsch's American Comedy written by William Paul and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the style and social themes of the comic films made in Hollywood by the director, Ernst Lubitsch
Author : JESSIE REDMON. FAUSET
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033059883
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (598 download)
Download or read book PLUM BUN written by JESSIE REDMON. FAUSET and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Niemeyer
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304201651
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)
Download or read book 1950s American Style: A Reference Guide (soft cover) written by Daniel Niemeyer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facets of the Fifties. A reference guide to an iconic Decade of Movie Palaces, Television, Classic Cars, Sports, Department Stores, Trains, Music, Food, Fashion and more
Author : Ann duCille Associate Professor of English and African American Studies Wesleyan University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195359119
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Coupling Convention : Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction written by Ann duCille Associate Professor of English and African American Studies Wesleyan University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993-10-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the tradition of marriage mean for people who have historically been deprived of its legal status? Generally thought of as a convention of the white middle class, the marriage plot has received little attention from critics of African-American literature. In this study, Ann duCille uses texts such as Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928) and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) to demonstrate that the African-American novel, like its European and Anglo-American counterparts, has developed around the marriage plot--what she calls "the coupling convention." Exploring the relationship between racial ideology and literary and social conventions, duCille uses the coupling convention to trace the historical development of the African-American women's novel. She demonstrates the ways in which black women appropriated this novelistic device as a means of expressing and reclaiming their own identity. More than just a study of the marriage tradition in black women's fiction, however, The Coupling Convention takes up and takes on many different meanings of tradition. It challenges the notion of a single black literary tradition, or of a single black feminist literary canon grounded in specifically black female language and experience, as it explores the ways in which white and black, male and female, mainstream and marginalized "traditions" and canons have influenced and cross-fertilized each other. Much more than a period study, The Coupling Convention spans the period from 1853 to 1948, addressing the vital questions of gender, subjectivity, race, and the canon that inform literary study today. In this original work, duCille offers a new paradigm for reading black women's fiction.
