Title Humor in the Caribbean literary canon / Sam Vásquez

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource Series New Caribbean Studies, 2691-3011 New Caribbean studies, 2691-3011 Contents 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 Aim̌ Čsaire'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 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 Summary Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canonintimately examines Caribbean writers who engage canonical Western texts and forms, while using humor to challenge Western representations of people of African descent. V̀squez uses the term 'literary crossing' to account for appropriation practices particular to the Caribbean, which introduce African diasporic cultural resources into the Western literary canon. Some of these cultural resources include outspoken contemporary icons and trickster figures like market women who immerse themselves in contentious debates about issues such as gender and sexuality. The primary writers explored are Louise Bennett, Aim̌ Čsaire, Junot D̕az, Zora Neale Hurston, Derek Walcott, and Anthony Winkler Subject Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism Humor in literature. African diaspora in literature. Literary theory -- Caribbean islands. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American. Literature. African diaspora in literature Caribbean literature (English) Humor in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137031389 1137031387 1283588269 9781283588263

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