Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery /
Carpio, Glenda.
Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery / Glenda R. Carpio. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xi, 287 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-279) and index.
9780195304695 0195304691 9780195304701 0195304705
2007041364
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
African American wit and humor--History and criticism.
Black humor.
Slavery in literature.
Comic, The, in literature.
African Americans in literature.
PS153.N5 / C373 2008
817.009/352996073
Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery / Glenda R. Carpio. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xi, 287 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-279) and index.
9780195304695 0195304691 9780195304701 0195304705
2007041364
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
African American wit and humor--History and criticism.
Black humor.
Slavery in literature.
Comic, The, in literature.
African Americans in literature.
PS153.N5 / C373 2008
817.009/352996073