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COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD *********************************** https://romantic-sundayloco1.blogspot.fr/?health=0195304691 *********************************** Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (The W.e.b. Du Bois Institute Series) Reassessing the meanings of 'black humor' and 'dark satire,' em Laughing Fit to Kill em illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed various modes of comedic 'conjuring'the absurd, the grotesque, and the strategic expression of racial stereotypesto redress not onlythe past injustices of slavery and racism in America but also their legacy in the present. Focusing on representations of slavery in the postcivil rights era, Carpio explores stereotypes in Richard Pryor's groundbreaking standup act and the outrageous comedy of em Chappelle's Show em to demonstrate howdeeply indebted they are to the sly social criticism embedded in the profoundly ironic nineteenthcentury fiction of William Wells Brown and Charles W. Chesnutt. Similarly, she reveals how the iconoclastic literary works of Ishmael Reed and SuzanLori Parks use satire, hyperbole, and burlesque humorto represent a violent history and to take on issues of racial injustice. With an abundance of illustrations, Carpio also extends her discussion of radical black comedy to the visual arts as she reveals how the use of subversive appropriation by K

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Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (The W.e.b. Du Bois Institute Series)

Reassessing the meanings of 'black humor' and 'dark satire,' em Laughing Fit to Kill em illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed various modes of comedic 'conjuring'the absurd, the grotesque, and the strategic expression of racial stereotypesto redress not onlythe past injustices of slavery and racism in America but also their legacy in the present. Focusing on representations of slavery in the postcivil rights era, Carpio explores stereotypes in Richard Pryor's groundbreaking standup act and the outrageous comedy of em Chappelle's Show em to demonstrate howdeeply indebted they are to the sly social criticism embedded in the profoundly ironic nineteenthcentury fiction of William Wells Brown and Charles W. Chesnutt. Similarly, she reveals how the iconoclastic literary works of Ishmael Reed and SuzanLori Parks use satire, hyperbole, and burlesque humorto represent a violent history and to take on issues of racial injustice. With an abundance of illustrations, Carpio also extends her discussion of radical black comedy to the visual arts as she reveals how the use of subversive appropriation by K

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