Carpio, Glenda
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 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
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
Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / General LIT000000
- Author(s)
- Carpio, Glenda
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780199719549
