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

• Autore: Carpio Glenda
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.