Contemporary Black Humor

Contemporary Black Humor Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Counterhumor: Comedy in Contemporary American Fiction
  • The Ethics of Contemporary Black Humor
  • Barth and Black Humor
• Criticism: Black Humor In American Fiction
  • The Mode of ‘Black Humor.’
  • Black Humor: To Weep with Laughing
• Criticism: Development And History
  • Surrealist Black Humor as Oppositional Discourse
  • What Was Black Humor?
• Criticism: Major Authors
  • The Absurd Quest and Black Humor in Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion
  • A World Worth Laughing At: Catch-22 and the Humor of Black Humor
  • Transgression in the Fiction of Philip Roth
  • Kurt Vonnegut: ‘I Had to Laugh Like Hell.’
  • Six Degrees of Separation
• Criticism: Technique And Narrative
  • Literary Production and Reception of Black Humor Fiction and Kurt Vonnegut
  • Notes on Technique in Black Humor
• Further Reading