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 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0195304691 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2007-041364


American literature--African American authors--History and criti cism.
African American wit and humor--History and criticism.
Black humor.
Slavery in literature.
Comic, The, in literature.
African Americans in literature.

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