Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Carpio, Glenda
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:	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.

Description
Physical Description:	xi, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-279) and index.
ISBN:	9780195304695 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0195304691 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780195304701 (cloth : alk. paper) 0195304705 (cloth : alk. paper)