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Laughing Fit to Kill

Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery

Laughing Fit to Kill
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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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Oxford University Press, USA; July 2008
302 pages; ISBN 9780199719549
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