Vásquez, Sam
Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon
1. Introduction: Take Bad Something Make Laugh: The Emergence of Humor in the Caribbean Literary Tradition
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2. Stiff Words Frighten Poor Folk: Humor, Orality, and Gender in Zora Neale Hurston’s
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3. Slackness and a Mento Aesthetic: Louise Bennett’s Trickster Poetics and Jamaican Women’s Explorations of Sexuality
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4. The Laughing Corpse: Humorous Performances of Spirituality, Sexuality, and Identity in Aimé Césaire’s
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5. Man Friday Speaks: Calypso Humor and the Reworking of Hierarchy in Derek Walcott’s
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6. Conclusion: Contemporary Literary Crossing and Humor in the Caribbean
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Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Regional and Cultural Studies, Postcolonial/World Literature, Literary History, Literary Theory, Ethnicity Studies
- Author(s)
- Vásquez, Sam
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- New Caribbean Studies
- Page amount
- 222 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137031389
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-43632-3