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

• Autore: Carpio Glenda
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.009896073; 817.009/352996073
• Soggetto topico: American literature - African American authors - History and criticism; African American wit and humor - History and criticism; Slavery in literature; Comic, The, in literature; African Americans in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-279) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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. Index
• Titolo autorizzato: Laughing fit to kill
• ISBN: 0-19-772484-1; 1-281-34193-2; 9786611341930; 0-19-971954-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825572103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II