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3. Over a Barrel: Ellison and the Democratic Politics of Black Laughter
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vi
- Introducing Gelopolitics 1
- 1. The Laughing Body Politic: The Counter/sovereign Politics of Hobbes’s Theory of Laughter 39
- 2. Beyond A/gelasty: Adorno’s Critical Theory of Laughter 65
- 3. Over a Barrel: Ellison and the Democratic Politics of Black Laughter 95
- 4. The Best Medicine? Repoliticising Laughter for Contemporary Feminist and Queer Politics 123
- The End of Laughter? Gelopolitics and the New Agelasty 160
- References 173
- Index 198
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vi
- Introducing Gelopolitics 1
- 1. The Laughing Body Politic: The Counter/sovereign Politics of Hobbes’s Theory of Laughter 39
- 2. Beyond A/gelasty: Adorno’s Critical Theory of Laughter 65
- 3. Over a Barrel: Ellison and the Democratic Politics of Black Laughter 95
- 4. The Best Medicine? Repoliticising Laughter for Contemporary Feminist and Queer Politics 123
- The End of Laughter? Gelopolitics and the New Agelasty 160
- References 173
- Index 198
