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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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"Recommended." - Choice
"Humor remains classed, gendered, and very serious business in Caribbean literary spheres, perhaps because of the acute self-consciousness of the region's middle class about being perceived as respectable and/or modern. Vasquez' study crosses canonical and generic borders in unexpected ways - a novel by Hurston, the poetry of Bennett and McKay, the plays of Walcott and Césaire, in the same conversation. This offers us unexpected and refreshing juxtapositions, and prompts new questions and perspectives." - Faith Smith, Brandeis University
"An extraordinarily insightful book on the delightful topic of Caribbean literary humor. Vasquez makes us think hard about the transformative power of laughter." - Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan, author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon
Authors: Sam Vásquez
Series Title: New Caribbean Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137031389
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Sam Vásquez 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-01028-5Published: 06 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43632-3Published: 06 August 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-03138-9Published: 06 August 2012
Series ISSN: 2691-3011
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 212
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Regional and Cultural Studies, Postcolonial/World Literature, Literary History, Literary Theory, Ethnicity Studies