纳纳·夸梅·阿杰-布伦亚《黑色星期五》中的思辨讽刺与后现代资本主义

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Studies in American Humor Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.5325/studamerhumor.8.2.0297

Benjamin Schwartz

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摘要:本文探讨了Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah的《黑色星期五》(2018)中的讽刺，特别关注使用投机手段质疑21世纪美国种族进步的假设。阿杰-布伦亚的幽默打乱了后种族时代的逻辑，并展示了当代非裔美国人的讽刺是如何扰乱种族中立的话语的，这些话语再现了玛丽亚·博斯所说的“后种族资本主义”。根据博斯、丹妮尔·富恩特斯·摩根、丽莎·格雷罗等人最近的研究成果，我阅读了阿杰伊-布伦亚那些黑暗而滑稽的短篇小说，这些小说讽刺并挑战了种族主义统治的新兴技术，这些技术在当代美国导致黑人身体过早死亡。

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Speculative Satire and Postracial Capitalism in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black

ABSTRACT:This article explores the satire in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black (2018), specifically focusing on the use of speculative devices to question assumptions about racial progress in the twenty-first century United States. Adjei-Brenyah’s humor unsettles the logic of postracial time and demonstrates how contemporary African American satire disrupts race-neutral discourses that reproduce what Maria Bose calls “postracial capitalism.” Drawing on recent scholarship by Bose, Danielle Fuentes Morgan, Lisa Guerrero, and others, I read Adjei-Brenyah’s dark and hilarious short stories as satires that name and challenge the emerging technologies of racist domination that condemn Black bodies to premature death in contemporary America.

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Studies in American Humor HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Welcome to the home of Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association. Founded by the American Humor Studies Association in 1974 and published continuously since 1982, StAH specializes in humanistic research on humor in America (loosely defined) because the universal human capacity for humor is always expressed within the specific contexts of time, place, and audience that research methods in the humanities strive to address. Such methods now extend well beyond the literary and film analyses that once formed the core of American humor scholarship to a wide range of critical, biographical, historical, theoretical, archival, ethnographic, and digital studies of humor in performance and public life as well as in print and other media. StAH’s expanded editorial board of specialists marks that growth. On behalf of the editorial board, I invite scholars across the humanities to submit their best work on topics in American humor and join us in advancing knowledge in the field.