Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon

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Chapter 1 Introduction: Take Bad Something Make Laugh: The Emergence of Humor in the Caribbean Literary Tradition
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Chapter 2 Stiff Words Frighten Poor Folk: Humor, Orality, and Gender in Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain
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Chapter 3 Slackness and a Mento Aesthetic: Louise Bennett’s Trickster Poetics and Jamaican Women’s Explorations of Sexuality
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Chapter 4 The Laughing Corpse: Humorous Performances of Spirituality, Sexuality, and Identity in Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest
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Chapter 5 Man Friday Speaks: Calypso Humor and the Reworking of Hierarchy in Derek Walcott’s Pantomime
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Chapter 6 Conclusion: Contemporary Literary Crossing and Humor in the Caribbean

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Title	Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon
Published by	Palgrave Macmillan US, January 2012
DOI	10.1057/9781137031389
ISBNs	978-1-349-43632-3, 978-1-137-03138-9
Authors	Vásquez, Sam, Sam Vásquez

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