Minstrelsy And Murder
Andrew Silver · 2006
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2006
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 222
- ISBN
- 9780807130803
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