"Honey, Hush!": Toward A Diasporic Analysis of Black Women’s Literary Humor

Laughing to Keep from Dying... (2020)

Morgan, Danielle Fuentes. Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-first Century. University of Illinois Press, 2020.

Morgan reveals how 21st-century African American satirists reveal the illusions that continue to surround race and racialization. She argues that by subverting comedy's rules and expectations, African American satire highlights the ways in which society remains invested in the construction of race even as it insists upon maintaining the myth of post-raciality.

 

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