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Autore: | Carpio Glenda |
Titolo: | Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery / / Glenda R. Carpio |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
Disciplina: | 813.009896073 |
817.009/352996073 | |
817.009352996073 | |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Note generali: | Formerly CIP. |
Previously issued in print: 2008. | |
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: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Laughing fit to kill |
ISBN: | 0-19-029397-7 |
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 |
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