TY  - GEN
T1  - Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery
A1  - Carpio, Glenda
LA  - English
PP  - Oxford ; New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2008
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn505081697
AB  - 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
OP  - 287
CN  - PS153.N5 C373 2008eb
SN  - 9780199719549
SN  - 0199719543
SN  - 1281341932
SN  - 9781281341938
SN  - 9786611341930
SN  - 6611341935
SN  - 9780195304695
SN  - 0195304691
SN  - 9780195304701
SN  - 0195304705
KW  - American literature : African American authors : History and criticism.
KW  - African American wit and humor : History and criticism.
KW  - Black humor.
KW  - Slavery in literature.
KW  - Comic, The, in literature.
KW  - African Americans in literature.
KW  - Humour noir américain : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Humour noir.
KW  - Esclavage dans la littérature.
KW  - Comique dans la littérature.
KW  - Noirs américains dans la littérature.
KW  - HUMOR : General.
KW  - African American wit and humor
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - American literature : African American authors
KW  - Black humor
KW  - Comic, The, in literature
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -