Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery /

Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery / Glenda R. Carpio.

Reassessing the meanings of "black humor" and "dark satire", this book illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed various modes of comedic "conjuring"--The absurd, the grotesque, and the strategic expression of racial stereotypes- to redr...

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Main Author: Carpio, Glenda.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American wit and humor > History and criticism.
Black humor.
Slavery in literature.
Comic, The, in literature.
African Americans in literature.

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Call Number: PS153.N5 C373 2008
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