Gorilla, My Love | Liberating Figures in Toni Cade Bambara’s Gorilla, My Love
In the following essay excerpt, Comfort shows how Bambara uses language in her short stories, including ‘‘Gorilla, My Love,’’ to evoke humor and multiple meanings.
Published first in 1972, Toni Cade Bambara’s Gorilla, My Love has been celebrated for its realistic depiction of the African American community, for its almost musical rendering of Black English, and for the resilience and energy of its first-person narrators. The only study focusing entirely on the humor in these stories is Nancy D. Hargrove’s ‘‘The Comic Sense in the Short Stories of Toni Cade Bambara’’ (1985). Hargrove considers the humor that arises unintentionally, noting that much of it depends on the circumstances and the language of the narrators, and...
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