Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery / Glenda R. Carpio.
Carpio, Glenda.
2008
PS153.N5 C373 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery / Glenda R. Carpio.
Author
Carpio, Glenda.
ISBN
9780195304695 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195304691 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780195304701 (alk. paper)
0195304705 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Language
English
Description
xi, 287 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS153.N5 C373 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
817.009/352996073
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-279) and index.
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