Humor as Resistance: Understanding Issa Rae’s Insecure as Post-Soul Satire

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2018

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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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101 pages

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