Antiblack Joy: Transmedial Sīyāh Bāzī and Global Public Spheres. Issue 1 (March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vaziri, Parisa
• Is Part Of: TDR. Volume 66:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 62
• Page End: 79
• Publication Date: 2022-03
• Subjects: Theater -- Periodicals; Theater -- Political aspects -- Periodicals; Theater and society -- Periodicals; Experimental theater -- Periodicals; Théâtre -- Périodiques; Experimental theater; Theater; Theater and society; Theater -- Political aspects; Aspect politique; Aspect social; Société; Théâtre (Spectacle); Théâtre expérimental; Periodicals; 792.05
• DOI: 10.1017/S1054204321000757
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1365-7518

Abstract

Abstract : Maryam Khakipour's 2004 The Joymakers and its 2008 sequel Shadi form an exemplary site for examining the dissemination and translation of Persian blackface across time, space, and media. The transmediality of sīyāh bāzī reveals a universal familiarity with the practice of blackface comedy that disrupts commonplace assumptions about its geographical and historical itinerary.