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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"By subverting comedy's rules and expectations, African American satire promotes social justice by connecting laughter with ethical beliefs in a revolutionary way. Danielle Fuentes Morgan ventures from Suzan-Lori Parks to Leslie Jones and Dave Chappelle to Get Out and Atlanta to examine the satirical treatment of race and racialization across today's African American culture. Morgan analyzes how African American artists highlight the ways that society...
562) Hamlet 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When his Tucson, AZ school's theater department is threatened to be cut, failed-actor-turned-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz writes a play that he hopes will solve everything. He decides to write a sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Now, the drama department will stage one of the most politically incorrect musical extravaganzas ever seen. Dana and his class will put it all on the line for a night of conflict and controversial.
564) History. A mess
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"While studying a seventeenth-century diary, the protagonist of History. A Mess. uncovers information about the first documented professional female artist. This discovery promises to change her academic career, and life in general ... until she realizes that her "discovery" was nothing more than two pages stuck together. At this point there's no going back though, and she goes to great lengths to hide her mistake -- undermining her sanity in the...
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of three classic tales and one modern "Rap" which include the story of Rip Van Winkle, where Rip sleeps twenty years and awakes to a much changed world, and the story of Gulliver's travels, where an Englishman is shipwrecked in a land where people are six inches high, and a traditional Jewish folk tale, "Fool's gold."
575) Mad magazine
Pub. Date
1952.
Language
English
Description
Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine founded in 1952. The magazine publishes satire on all aspects of life and popular culture, politics, entertainment, and public figures.
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