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Laughing Fit to Kill

Author	: Glenda Carpio
Publisher	: OUP USA
Total Pages	: 302
Release	: 2008-07
Genre	: Humor
ISBN	: 0195304705

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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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Laughing Fit to Kill

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Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate—or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries would have

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Whiting Up

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