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Hardback:Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery / Glenda Carpio.:2008 Hardback Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery / Glenda Carpio.
Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery / Glenda Carpio.
Author: Carpio, Glenda.
Publication year: 2008
Format: Hardback
Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780195304701 (hbk.) : 0195304705 (hbk.) : 9780195304695 (pbk.) : 0195304691 (pbk.) :
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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.
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304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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