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Laughing fit to kill

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Modern black humor represents a rich history of radical innovation stretching back to the antebellum period. 'Laughing Fit to Kill' reveals how black writers, artists, and comedians have used humor across two centuries as a uniquely powerful response to forced migration and enslavement.

כותר Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery / Glenda R. Carpio. [electronic resource]
מהדורה 1st ed.
מוציא לאור New York
Oxford University Press
שנה 2023
הערות Formerly CIP.
Previously issued in print: 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-279) and index.
English
הערת תוכן ותקציר Contents
Introduction
1 "Laffin' fit ter kill": Black Humor in the Fiction of William Wells Brown and Charles W. Chesnutt
2 The Conjurer Recoils: Slavery in Richard Pryor's Performances and Chappelle's Show
3 Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishism, and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada
4 "A Comedy of the Grotesque": Robert Colescott, Kara Walker, and the Iconography of Slavery
5 The Tragicomedy of Slavery in Suzan-Lori Parks's Early Plays
Notes
Bibliography
Index
סדרה Oxford scholarship online
היקף החומר 1 online resource (302 p.)
שפה אנגלית
שנת זכויות יוצרים �2008.
מספר מערכת 997010715803105171
תצוגת MARC

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