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Antiblack Joy

Transmedial Sīyāh Bāzī and Global Public Spheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2022

Parisa Vaziri
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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.

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TDR , Volume 66 , Issue 1 , March 2022 , pp. 62 - 79
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© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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