Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon intimately examines Caribbean writers who engage canonical Western texts and forms, while using humor to challenge Western representations of people of African descent.

Autorentext
Sam Vásquez is an assistant professor of English at Dartmouth College.

Zusammenfassung
Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon intimately examines Caribbean writers who engage canonical Western texts and forms, while using humor to challenge Western representations of people of African descent.

Inhalt
Introduction: Take Bad Something Make Laugh: The Emergence of Humor in the Caribbean Literary Tradition Stiff Words Frighten Poor Folk: Humor, Orality, and Gender in Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain Slackness and a Mento Aesthetic: Louise Bennett's Trickster Poetics and Jamaican Women's Explorations of Sexuality The Laughing Corpse: Humorous Performances of Spirituality, Sexuality, and Identity in Aimé Césaire's A Tempest Man Friday Speaks: Calypso Humor and the Reworking of Hierarchy in Derek Walcott's Pantomime Conclusion: Contemporary Literary Crossing and Humor in the Caribbean