03162nam 2200673Ia 450 991078229270332120230721032601.00-19-772484-11-281-34193-297866113419300-19-971954-3(CKB)1000000000535719(EBL)415485(OCoLC)476242698(SSID)ssj0000189702(PQKBManifestationID)11168159(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189702(PQKBWorkID)10157363(PQKB)11081720(Au-PeEL)EBL415485(CaPaEBR)ebr10229921(CaONFJC)MIL134193(MiAaPQ)EBC415485(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 criticismSlavery in literatureComic, The, in literatureAfrican Americans in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.African American wit and humorHistory and criticism.Slavery in literature.Comic, The, in literature.African Americans in literature.813.009896073817.009/352996073Carpio Glenda1555571MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782292703321Laughing fit to kill3817576UNINA