Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: the folklore of racial capitalism
6. Introduction 32
7. 1. ‘‘A Combination Madhouse, Burlesque Show and Coney Island’’: The Color Question in George Schuyler’s Black No More 33
8. 2. ‘‘Inanimate Hideosities’’: The Burlesque of Racial Capitalism in Nathanael West’s A Cool Million 72
9. Part II: performing the folk
10. Introduction 112
11. 3. ‘‘The Last American Frontier’’: Mapping the Folk in the Federal Writers’ Project’s Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State 113
12. 4. ‘‘Ah Gives Myself de Privilege to Go’’: Navigating the Field and the Folk in Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men 152
13. Part III: populist masquerade
14. Introduction 190
15. 5. ‘‘Am I Laughing?’’: Burlesque Incongruities of Genre, Gender, and Audience in Preston Sturges’s Sullivan’s Travels 191
16. Afterpiece: The Coen Brothers’ Ol’-Timey Blues in O Brother, Where Art Thou? 241
17. Notes 251
18. Bibliography 287
19. Index 311