Humor in the Caribbean literary canon
By: Sam Vásquez
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137010285
Subjects: Humor in literature; History and criticism; Caribbean literature (English); African diaspora in literature
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Take bad something make laugh: the emergence of humor in the Caribbean literary tradition; title: Stiff words frighten poor folk: humor, orality, and gender in Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, man of the mountain; title: Slackness and a mento aesthetic: Louise Bennett's trickster poetics and Jamaican women's explorations of sexuality; title: The laughing corpse: humorous performances of spirituality, sexuality, and identity in Aimé Césaire's A tempest; title: Man friday speaks: calypso humor and the reworking of hierarchy in Derek Walcott's Pantomime; title: Conclusion: contemporary literary crossing and humor in the Caribbean.