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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-10 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Edited by the author of The Sellout, winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Hokum is a liberating, eccentric, savagely comic anthology of the funniest writing by
Language: en
Pages: 156
Pages: 156
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-07 - Publisher: New Directions Publishing
A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City Oreo is raised by her maternal gran
Language: en
Pages: 414
Pages: 414
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-01 - Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New Y
Language: en
Pages: 302
Pages: 302
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Reassessing the meanings of "black humor" and "dark satire," Laughing Fit to Kill illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed var
Language: en
Pages: 384
Pages: 384
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Providing new insight into key debates over race and representation in the media, this ethnographic study explores the ways in which African Americans have been