@article{ART002103228},
author={Jungman Park},
title={Battle of ‘38 Special’ and ‘44 Burner’: the Angularity and Humor Narrative in “Filling Station”},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2016},
volume={29},
number={1},
pages={63-88}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jungman Park
TI - Battle of ‘38 Special’ and ‘44 Burner’: the Angularity and Humor Narrative in “Filling Station”
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2016
VL - 29
IS - 1
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 63
EP - 88
SN - 1226-3397
AB - Humor is a key narrative strategy in Zora Neale Hurston’s life-long ‘black folk comedy’ project. In addition, the angularity constitutes another axis of the mentioned project, where it embodies the African Americans’ authentic language asset and space-time aesthetics as differentiated from the Euro-whites’ literary traditions—often represented by linear space-time, organic plot, development and completion of a story in the crisis structure. Hurston’s play Cold Keener (1930) best illustrates the aesthetics of angularity and the dynamics of humor narrative that Hurston aimed in her black folk comedy project. The said angularity and humor narrative are dominant in every episode or ‘angle’ of the play, and especially remarkable in the space-time of “Filling Station,” the first episode of Cold Keener. In this episode, verbal contentions between the two black men, unable to determine a winner and postponed to the next round every chance, eventually arrive at the showdown of a 38 Caliber Revolver and a 44-inch burner. However, there is no guarantee that this confrontation will determine a winner and finish the game. After all, what is left on stage is a feast of laughter indefinitely triggered by the two men’s verbal rivalry. The showdown of the ‘38 Special’ revolver and the ‘44 Burner’ in the finale of the scene becomes a tableau representing the ‘eternal’ feast of laughter, At the same time, presenting as the never-ending feast itself, the handgun and burner showdown imprints the aesthetics of angularity and humor narrative, the two keys for Hurston’s black folk comedy project, in the moments of eternal here and now.
KW - Zora Neale Hurston;Cold Keener;“Filling Station”;Angularity;Humor;Black Folk Comedy;Verbal Contention
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Jungman Park. (2016). Battle of ‘38 Special’ and ‘44 Burner’: the Angularity and Humor Narrative in “Filling Station”. Journal of Modern English Drama, 29(1), 63-88.
Jungman Park. 2016, "Battle of ‘38 Special’ and ‘44 Burner’: the Angularity and Humor Narrative in “Filling Station”", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.29, no.1 pp.63-88.
Jungman Park "Battle of ‘38 Special’ and ‘44 Burner’: the Angularity and Humor Narrative in “Filling Station”" Journal of Modern English Drama 29.1 pp.63-88 (2016) : 63.
Jungman Park. Battle of ‘38 Special’ and ‘44 Burner’: the Angularity and Humor Narrative in “Filling Station”. 2016; 29(1), 63-88.
Jungman Park. "Battle of ‘38 Special’ and ‘44 Burner’: the Angularity and Humor Narrative in “Filling Station”" Journal of Modern English Drama 29, no.1 (2016) : 63-88.
Jungman Park. Battle of ‘38 Special’ and ‘44 Burner’: the Angularity and Humor Narrative in “Filling Station”. Journal of Modern English Drama, 29(1), 63-88.
Jungman Park. Battle of ‘38 Special’ and ‘44 Burner’: the Angularity and Humor Narrative in “Filling Station”. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2016; 29(1) 63-88.
Jungman Park. Battle of ‘38 Special’ and ‘44 Burner’: the Angularity and Humor Narrative in “Filling Station”. 2016; 29(1), 63-88.
Jungman Park. "Battle of ‘38 Special’ and ‘44 Burner’: the Angularity and Humor Narrative in “Filling Station”" Journal of Modern English Drama 29, no.1 (2016) : 63-88.
