Muhammad Ali : trickster in the culture of irony /
Charles Lemert.
- Oxford : Polity Press, 2003.
- 215 p.: ill., photgrs.; 23 cm.
- Celebrities Series .
Includes bibliographical references, notes (p.188-206) and index
From the beginnings: GG is Gonna whip everybody-- Celebrity, tricks and culture: Float like a Butterfly, sting like a bee-- Trickster queers the world: I don't have to be what you want me to be-- The irony of global cultures: No viet cng ever called me nigger-- Coming home to the heart of darkness: When we were kings-- Trickster bodies and cultural death: You 'll die one day... so better get ready-- Ali and the world: A chronology.