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Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)
Download or read book The Book of Negro Humor written by Langston Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mel Watkins
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569767602
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)
Download or read book On the Real Side written by Mel Watkins and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos 'n' Andy show presented a distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts this image with the authentic underground humor of African Americans found in folktales, race records, and all-black shows and films. After generations of stereotypes, the underground humor finally emerged before the American public with Richard Pryor in the 1970s. But Pryor was not the first popular comic to present authentically black humor. Watkins offers surprising reassessments of such seminal figures as Fetchit, Bert Williams, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx, looking at how they paved the way for contemporary comics such as Whoopi Goldberg, Eddie Murphy, and Bill Cosby.
Author : Mel Watkins
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book African American Humor written by Mel Watkins and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of anecdotes, tales, jokes, toasts, rhymes, satire, riffs, poems, stand-up sketches, and snaps documents the evolution of African American humor over the past two centuries. It includes routines and writings from such luminaries as Bert Williams, Butterbeans & Susie, Stepin Fetchit, Moms Mabley, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Redd Foxx, Ishmael Reed, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Martin Lawrence, and Chris Rock. This anthology includes classic stage routines, literary examples, and witty quotations presented in their entirety.
Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : W. Clement Stone
ISBN 13 : 9780396062998
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Book of Negro Humor written by Langston Hughes and published by W. Clement Stone. This book was released on 1965-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Valentine White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Chocolate Drops from the South written by Edmund Valentine White and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James David Corrothers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Black Cat Club written by James David Corrothers and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393318180
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Honey, Hush! written by Nikki Giovanni and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "dazzling anthology" (Publishers Weekly), Daryl Cumber Dance has collected the often hard-hitting, sometimes risqué, always dramatic humor that arises from the depth of black women's souls and the breadth of their lives. The eloquent wit and laughter of African American women are presented here in all their written and spoken manifestations: autobiographies, novels, essays, poems, speeches, comic routines, proverbial sayings, cartoons, mimeographed sheets, and folk tales. The chapters proceed thematically, covering the church, love, civil rights, motherly advice, and much more.
Author : James D. Corrothers
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781497839694
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Black Cat Club written by James D. Corrothers and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.
Author : Paul Beatty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596917164
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Hokum written by Paul Beatty and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 black Americans. This book is less a comprehensive collection than it is a mix-tape narrative dubbed by a trusted friend-a sampler of underground classics, rare grooves, and timeless summer jams, poetry and prose juxtaposed with the blues, hip-hop, political speeches, and the world's funniest radio sermon. The subtle musings of Toni Cade Bambara, Henry Dumas, and Harryette Mullen are bracketed by the profane and often loud ruminations of Langston Hughes, Darius James, Wanda Coleman, Tish Benson, Steve Cannon, and Hattie Gossett. Some of the funniest writers don't write, so included are selections from well-known yet unpublished wits Lightnin' Hopkins, Mike Tyson, and the Reverend Al Sharpton. Selections also come from public figures and authors whose humor, although incisive and profound, is often overlooked: Malcolm X, Suzan-Lori Parks, Zora Neale Hurston, Sojourner Truth, and W.E.B. Dubois. Groundbreaking, fierce, and hilarious, this is a necessary anthology for any fan or student of American writing, with a huge range and a smart, political grasp of the uses of humor.
Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Buccaneer Books
ISBN 13 : 9780899667331
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (673 download)
Download or read book Book of Negro Humor written by Langston Hughes and published by Buccaneer Books. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A.E. Rooks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982128267
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The Black Joke written by A.E. Rooks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most feared ship in Britain's West Africa Squadron, His Majesty's brig Black Joke was one of a handful of ships tasked with patrolling the western coast of Africa in an effort to end hundreds of years of global slave trading. Sailing after the spectacular fall of Napoleon in France, yet before the rise of Queen Victoria's England, Black Joke was first a slaving vessel itself, and one with a lightning-fast reputation; only a lucky capture in 1827 allowed it to be repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the next five years, the ship's diverse crew and dedicated commanders would capture more ships and liberate more enslaved people than any other in the Squadron. Author A.E. Rooks chronicles the adventures on this ship and its crew in a narrative of the history of Britain's suppression efforts. As Britain slowly attempted to snuff out the transatlantic slave trade by way of treaty and negotiation, enforcing these policies fell to the Black Joke and those that sailed with it as they battled slavers, weather disasters, and interpersonal drama among captains and crew that reverberated across oceans. In this history of the daring feats of a single ship, the abolition of the international slave trade is revealed as an inexplicably extended exercise involving tense negotiations between many national powers, both colonizers and formerly colonized, that would stretch on for decades longer than it should have"--
Author : André Breton
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 0872868494
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Anthology of Black Humor written by André Breton and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton’s definitive statement on l’humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. While some of the authors featured in The Anthology of Black Humor are already well known to American readers—Swift, Kafka, Rimbaud, Poe, Lewis Carroll, and Baudelaire among them (and even then, Breton’s selections are often surprising)—many others are sure to come as a revelation. The entries range from the acerbic aphorisms of Swift, Lichtenberg, and Duchamp to the theatrical slapstick of Christian Dietrich Grabbe, from the wry missives of Rimbaud and Jacques Vache to the manic paranoia of Dali, from the ferocious iconoclasm of Alfred Jarry and Arthur Craven to the offhand hilarity of Apollinaire at his most spontaneous. For each of the forty-five authors included, Breton has provided an enlightening biographical and critical preface, situating both the writer and the work in the context of black humor—a partly macabre, partly ironic, and often absurd turn of spirit that Breton defined as "a superior revolt of the mind." "Anthologies can aim to be groundbreaking or thought-provoking; few can be said to have introduced a new phrase—or a new concept—into the language. No one had ever used the term "black humour" before this one came along, unless, perhaps, it was from a racial angle."—The Guardian Andre Breton (1896-1966), the founder and principal theorist of the Surrealist movement, is one of the major literary figures of the past century. His best-known works in English translation include Nadja, Mad Love, The Manifestoes of Surrealism, The Magnetic Fields (with Philippe Soupault), and Earthlight. Mark Polizzotti is the author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton.
Author : William Schechter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Negro Humor in America written by William Schechter and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. V. White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494021511
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Chocolate Drops from the South written by E. V. White and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
Author : Fran Ross
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122323X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Oreo written by Fran Ross and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with a feminist twist, immersed in seventies pop culture, and mixing standard English, black vernacular, and Yiddish with wisecracking aplomb. Oreo, our young hero, navigates the labyrinth of sound studios and brothels and subway tunnels in Manhattan, seeking to claim her birthright while unwittingly experiencing and triggering a mythic journey of self-discovery like no other.
Author : Baratunde Thurston
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062098047
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book How to Be Black written by Baratunde Thurston and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York TimesBestseller Baratunde Thurston’s comedic memoir chronicles his coming-of-blackness and offers practical advice on everything from “How to Be the Black Friend” to “How to Be the (Next) Black President”. Have you ever been called “too black” or “not black enough”? Have you ever befriended or worked with a black person? Have you ever heard of black people? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you. It is also for anyone who can read, possesses intelligence, loves to laugh, and has ever felt a distance between who they know themselves to be and what the world expects. Raised by a pro-black, Pan-Afrikan single mother during the crack years of 1980s Washington, DC, and educated at Sidwell Friends School and Harvard University, Baratunde Thurston has more than over thirty years' experience being black. Now, through stories of his politically inspired Nigerian name, the heroics of his hippie mother, the murder of his drug-abusing father, and other revelatory black details, he shares with readers of all colors his wisdom and expertise in how to be black. “As a black woman, this book helped me realize I’m actually a white man.”—Patton Oswalt
Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Book of Negro Folklore written by Langston Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
