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02238cam a2200445 a 4500 001 ED1527A86BFF11DEA13FF332A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20100405092921 008 071004s2008 enkaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2007041364 020 $a 0195304705 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780195304701 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 0195304691 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780195304695 (pbk. : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)156817037 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d YDXCP $d C#P $d BWX $d CDX $d OKN $d TSU $d KUT $d CPE $d TEX $d IOL $d SILO 050 00 $a PS153.N5 $b C373 2008 082 00 $a 817.009/352996073 $2 22 100 1 $a Carpio, Glenda. 245 1 $a Laughing fit to kill : $b black humor in the fictions of slavery / $c Glenda R. Carpio. 260 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2008. 300 $a xi, 287 p., [16] p. of plates : $b ill. (some col.) ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-279) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a African American wit and humor $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Black humor. 650 0 $a Slavery in literature. 650 0 $a Comic, The, in literature. 650 0 $a African Americans in literature. 856 41 $3 Table of contents only $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip082/2007041364.html 941 $a 6 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926091357.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180120044414.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160824060732.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20100120073657.0 952 $l UTAX115 $d 20090708133753.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20090708133753.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=ED1527A86BFF11DEA13FF332A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IOLInitiate Another SILO Locator Search