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Author:

Carpio, Glenda.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xi, 287 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African American wit and humor--History and criticism.
Black humor.
Slavery in literature.
Comic, The, in literature.
African Americans in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-279) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0195304705 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780195304701 (cloth : alk. paper)
0195304691 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780195304695 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)156817037

LCCN:

2007041364

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)