Humor as Resistance: Understanding Issa Rae’s Insecure as Post-Soul Satire
Humor as Resistance: Understanding Issa Rae’s Insecure as Post-Soul Satire
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2018
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Buffenstein, Ilana
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University of Hawaii at Manoa
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As a self-described “awkward black girl,” Issa Rae’s distinctly witty voice shines through
in her early web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl; however, less critical work
has been done on her landmark new HBO series, Insecure, which she write
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post-soul satire,
“charged” humor,
racial sincerity
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