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

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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.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "Laffin' fit ter kill" : black humor in the fiction of William Wells Brown and Charles W. Chesnutt
  • The conjurer recoils : slavery in Richard Pryor's performances and Chappelle's Show
  • Conjuring the mysteries of slavery : voodoo, fetishism, and stereotype in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada
  • "A comedy of the grotesque" : Robert Colescott, Kara Walker, and the iconography of slavery
  • The tragicomedy of slavery in Suzan-Lori Parks's early plays.

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