Book review: Tucker, Terrence T. (2018). Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
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Keywords

black rage
African American Humour
comic rage
satire

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Walsbergerová, T. (2021). Book review: Tucker, Terrence T. (2018). Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. The European Journal of Humour Research, 9(1), 191–195. Retrieved from https://ww.europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/452

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