Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon [electronic resource] /
Vásquez, S.author.
Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon intimately examines Caribbean writers who engage canonical Western texts and forms, while using humor to challenge Western representations of people of African descent.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Take bad something make laugh: the emergence of humor in the Caribbean literary tradition -- Stiff words frighten poor folk: humor, orality, and gender in Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, man of the mountain -- Slackness and a mento aesthetic: Louise Bennett's trickster poetics and Jamaican women's explorations of sexuality -- The laughing corpse: humorous performances of spirituality, sexuality, and identity in Aimé Césaire's A tempest -- Man friday speaks: calypso humor and the reworking of hierarchy in Derek Walcott's Pantomime -- Conclusion: contemporary literary crossing and humor in the Caribbean.
Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon intimately examines Caribbean writers who engage canonical Western texts and forms, while using humor to challenge Western representations of people of African descent.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature   .
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature—Philosophy.
Ethnicity.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Literary History.
Literary Theory.
Ethnicity Studies.