03223nam 2200697Ia 450 991045464790332120200520144314.01-281-34193-297866113419300-19-971954-3(CKB)1000000000535719(EBL)415485(OCoLC)476242698(SSID)ssj0000189702(PQKBManifestationID)11168159(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189702(PQKBWorkID)10157363(PQKB)11081720(MiAaPQ)EBC415485(Au-PeEL)EBL415485(CaPaEBR)ebr10229921(CaONFJC)MIL134193(EXLCZ)99100000000053571920071004d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLaughing fit to kill[electronic resource] black humor in the fictions of slavery /Glenda R. CarpioOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20081 online resource (302 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-530469-1 0-19-530470-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-279) and index.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; IndexIntroduction. 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 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' Early Plays. Notes. Bibliography. IndexAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAfrican American wit and humorHistory and criticismBlack humorSlavery in literatureComic, The, in literatureAfrican Americans in literatureElectronic books.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.African American wit and humorHistory and criticism.Black humor.Slavery in literature.Comic, The, in literature.African Americans in literature.813.009896073817.009/352996073Carpio Glenda1055192MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454647903321Laughing fit to kill2488418UNINA