Add to ORKGHonorable Mention, 2013 Library Research Award for Undergraduates, Senior Non-Thesis DivisionThis paper examines how humor broaching the topic of slavery can move beyond poor taste into savvy critiques of how historical narratives are formed. Two neo-slave narratives drive the exploration: Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale (1982) and Paul Bogart's Skin Game (1971)
“Laughing Off White Supremacy, or: The Politics of Laughter in African American Modernism” delineate...
The goal of this thesis is to explain the nature of ethnic humor in American society. This will be a...
1 volume, 28 unnumbered pages. Black people in America have been taxonomized as savages or lazy ...
In this article I examine the creation of neo-slave narratives, or fictional texts written in the 20...
This passage suggests something of the nature of Black humor and the function it has served, not onl...
The present thesis is aimed to reveal how African Americans have tried to leave behind negative ster...
The present paper intends to study a slave narrative memoir Twelve Years a Slave (1853) by Solomon N...
This dissertation examines slave narratives, neo-slave narratives, and histories of slavery. Using c...
The close investigation of two slave narratives and three neo-slave narratives each contributes to a...
This dissertation examines black writers' appropriations of blackface minstrelsy as central to the c...
This paper traces the evolution of the postmodern slave narrative. It pays special attention to the ...
African American slave narratives are oftentimes relegated to the particularized field of ante-bellu...
African American humor in part borrowed its vocabularies, forms, and thematics from contemporaneous ...
This paper aims to discuss the neo-slave narrative, which developed during the Civil Rights Movement...
In May 2014, comedian Leslie Jones faced backlash after making a joke about slavery during an episod...
“Laughing Off White Supremacy, or: The Politics of Laughter in African American Modernism” delineate...
The goal of this thesis is to explain the nature of ethnic humor in American society. This will be a...
1 volume, 28 unnumbered pages. Black people in America have been taxonomized as savages or lazy ...
In this article I examine the creation of neo-slave narratives, or fictional texts written in the 20...
This passage suggests something of the nature of Black humor and the function it has served, not onl...
The present thesis is aimed to reveal how African Americans have tried to leave behind negative ster...
The present paper intends to study a slave narrative memoir Twelve Years a Slave (1853) by Solomon N...
This dissertation examines slave narratives, neo-slave narratives, and histories of slavery. Using c...
The close investigation of two slave narratives and three neo-slave narratives each contributes to a...
This dissertation examines black writers' appropriations of blackface minstrelsy as central to the c...
This paper traces the evolution of the postmodern slave narrative. It pays special attention to the ...
African American slave narratives are oftentimes relegated to the particularized field of ante-bellu...
African American humor in part borrowed its vocabularies, forms, and thematics from contemporaneous ...
This paper aims to discuss the neo-slave narrative, which developed during the Civil Rights Movement...
In May 2014, comedian Leslie Jones faced backlash after making a joke about slavery during an episod...
“Laughing Off White Supremacy, or: The Politics of Laughter in African American Modernism” delineate...
The goal of this thesis is to explain the nature of ethnic humor in American society. This will be a...
1 volume, 28 unnumbered pages. Black people in America have been taxonomized as savages or lazy ...