Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery Tapa blanda - 2008

pb. Fair. Obviously worn, but no text pages missing. May have highlighting and marginalia, but markings do not interfere with readability. Textbooks do not have accompanying CDs or access codes. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC.

Oxford University Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

OUP USA, 2008-07-03. Paperback. New. 2.0305 cent in x 23.0964 cent in x 15.2284 cent in.

Oxford University Press, 2008. paperback. Very Good. 9x6x0. Very good paperback from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; exterior shelfwear is very minor. Text is also very good and appears free of previous owner markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

NY: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. CLEAN COPY. . VG. PAPERBACK. 1ST. 2008.

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008-07-01. Paperback. Used: Good.

Paperback / softback. New. Modern black humor represents a rich history of radical innovation stretching back to the antebellum period. Laughing Fit to Kill reveals how black writers, artists, and comedians have used humor across two centuries as a uniquely powerful response to forced migration and enslavement. Glenda Carpio traces how, through various modes of "conjuring," through gothic, grotesque and absurdist slapstick, through stinging satire, hyperbole, and burlesque, and through the strategic expression of racial stereotype itself, black humorists of all sorts have enacted "rituals of redress." In highlighting the tradition and tropes of black humorists, Carpio illuminates the reach of slavery's long arm into our contemporary popular culture. She convincingly demonstrates the ways that, for instance, Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle's modes of post-Civil Rights tragicomedy are deeply indebted to that of William Wells Brown and Charles… Leer más

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008-07-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Oxford Univ Pr, 2008. Paperback. New. illustrated edition. 304 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.

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