Laughing Fit to Kill

Author	: Glenda Carpio
Publisher	: OUP USA
Total Pages	: 302
Release	: 2008-07
ISBN-10	: 9780195304701
ISBN-13	: 0195304705
Rating	: 4/5 (705 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis Laughing Fit to Kill by : Glenda Carpio

Download or read book Laughing Fit to Kill written by Glenda Carpio and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reassessing the meaning of "black humor," and "dark satire," Glenda Carpio traces a tradition in which black American humorists innovated sharp-edged, occasionally gruesome, and sometimes obscene modes of surrealist humor, to represent the brutality of chattel slavery and its legacy in contemporary culture.

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