Laughing fit to kill: black humor in the fictions of slavery

Introduction 1. Laffin fit ter kill: Black Humor in the Fiction of William Wells Brown and Charles W. Chesnutt 2. The Conjurer Recoils: Slavery in Richard Prio and Chappelle's Show 3. Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishism, and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada 4. A Comedy of the Grotesque Robert Colescott, Kara Walker and the Iconography of Slavery 5. The Tragicomedy of Slavery in Suzan-Lori Parks' Early Plays Bibliography