Minstrelsy and Murder: The Crisis of Southern Humor, 1835–1925LSU Press, 2006 M02 1 - 240 pages In Minstrelsy and Murder, Andrew Silver locates the foundation of the South’s dark humor in the great and violent cultural upheavals of the nineteenth century. Examining the connection between comic victimization and real acts of aggression, Silver shows southern humor to be a product not of America’s wholeness and national unity but of its internal fears, divisiveness, and perpetual civil strife. He focuses on the work of southern writers Augustus B. Longstreet, George Washington Harris, Charles Chesnutt, and Mark Twain, exploring a strain of regional humor that runs counter to the more familiar American comic tradition. |
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 16 |
CHAPTER 2 | 49 |
CHAPTER 3 | 88 |
CHAPTER 4 | 130 |
The Person Laughing in Darkness | 172 |
Notes | 193 |
Bibliography | 205 |
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Minstrelsy and Murder: The Crisis of Southern Humor, 1835–1925 Andrew Silver No preview available - 2006 |