Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery /

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 Fl...

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প্রধান লেখক: Carpio, Glenda
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প্রকাশিত: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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  • 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.