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Laughing Fit to Kill
Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery
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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
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