Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery / by Carpio, Glenda

Table of Contents: “…Chesnutt; 2 The Conjurer Recoils: Slavery in Richard Pryor's Performances 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's Early Plays; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery / by Carpio, Glenda

Table of Contents: “…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.…”