The comedy of Dave Chappelle: critical essays

"Best known for his short-lived Comedy Central program Chappelle's Show, Dave Chappelle is regarded as one of today's most culturally significant comedians. This book assembles 13 essays that examine motifs common in Chappelle's comedy, including technology and digital culture; race, gender, and ethnicity; economics and politics; music, television, film, and performance; and memory, language, and identity"--Provided by publisher

Introduction / K.A. Wisniewski -- Exploring niggerdom : racial inversion in language taboos / Richard J. Gray II and Michael Putnam -- Comic genius or con man? Deconstructing the comedy of Dave Chappelle / Novotny Lawrence -- The comedian is a "man" : gender performance in the comedy of Dave Chappelle / Andrea Cumbo -- Dave Chappelle, the Wu-Tang Clan and Afro-Asian America / Graham Chia-Hui Preston -- Laughing whiteness : pixies, parody, and perspectives / Brian Gogan -- Impersonating Hollywood : the conflicting identity discourses of Charlie Murphy's true Hollywood stories / Julia Round -- The artistry of ethnography in Dave Chappelle's Block party / C. Riley Snorton -- Gramsci, selling out, and the politics of race loyalty : exploring Chappelle's no-show / Amarnath Amarasingam -- "When keeping it real goes wrong" : subversions of racial authenticity / Katherine Lee -- When "keeping it real" goes right / Kimberley A. Yates -- "White people, run for cover" : Dave Chappelle's festival of misrule / Francesca Gamber -- Haunted : Dave Chappelle's radical racial politics in the context of co-opted blackness / Chiwen Bao -- Conclusion : Legacy and Dave Chappelle / K.A. Wisniewski.