Laughing Fit to Kill Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery

Name: Laughing Fit to Kill Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery
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ISBN: 9780195304695

ISBN-10: 0195304691

ISBN-13: 9780195304695

Edition: 2008

Authors: Glenda Carpio

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Modern black humor represents a rich history of radical innovation stretching back to the antebellum period. Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery reveals how black writers, artists, and comedians have used humor across two centuries as a uniquely powerful response to forced migration and enslavement. Glenda Carpio traces how, through various modes of "conjuring," through gothic, grotesque and absurdist slapstick, through stinging satire, hyperbole, and burlesque, and through the strategic expression of racial stereotype itself, black humorists of all sorts have enacted "rituals of redress." In highlighting the tradition and tropes of black humorists, Carpio illuminates the reach of…

Book details

List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.012



Introduction



"Laffin' fit ter kill": Black Humor in the Fiction of William Wells Brown and Charles W. Chesnutt



The Conjurer Recoils: Slavery in Richard Pryor's Performances and Chappelle's Show



Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishism, and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada



"A Comedy of the Grotesque": Robert Colescott, Kara Walker, and the Iconography of Slavery



The Tragicomedy of Slavery in Suzan-Lori Parks's Early Plays


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