Title: Minstrelsy And Murder
Description: "In Minstrelsy and Murder, Andrew Silver locates the foundation of the South's dark humor in the great and violent cultural upheavals of the nineteenth century. Examining the connection between comic victimization and real acts of aggression, Silver shows southern humor to be a product not of America's wholeness and national unity but of its internal fears, divisiveness, and perpetual civil strife. He focuses on the work of southern writers Augustus B. Longstreet, George Washington Harris, Charles Chesnutt, and Mark Twain, exploring a strain of regional humor that runs counter to the more familiar American comic tradition."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: American Humorous stories, American literature, American wit and humor, History and criticism, In literature, Intellectual life, American wit and humor, history and criticism, Humorous stories, history and criticism, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Southern states, intellectual life, Southern states, in literature
Places: Southern States
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century