Plantation comic modes

Humor

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-24

  Cowan, William Tynes ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039888097     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/humr.14.1.1     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Abrahams, Roger D. 1992 Singing the Master: The emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South. New York: Random House.
2. Barrow, David C., Jr. 1882 A Georgia Corn-Shucking. The Century Magazine 24 (6), 873-78.
3. Bateson, Gregory 1985 A Theory of Play and Fantasy. In Innis, Robert E. (ed.) Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 129-144.
4. Bernard, John 1969 [1887] Retrospections of America: 1797-1811. Mrs. Bayle Bernard (ed.). New York: Benjamin Blom, 1969.
5. Blassingame, John W. (ed.) 1977 Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1979 The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press.
6. Blassingame, John W. (ed.) 1977 Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1979 The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press.
7. Brown, John 1991 [1855] Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave. F. N. Boney (ed.). Savannah: Beehive Press.
8. Boskin, Joseph 1986 Sambo: The Rise and Demise of an American Jester. New York: Oxford University Press.
9. Breeden, James O. (ed.) 1980 Advice Among Masters: The Ideal in Slave Management in the Old South. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press.
10. Bryant, William Cullen. 1850 Letters of a Traveller; or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America. 2nd ed. New York: George P. Putnam.
11. Douglas, Mary 1991 Jokes. In Mukerji, Chandra and Michael Schudson (eds.) Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press. 291-310.
12. Douglass, Frederick 1986 [1845] Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. New York: Viking Penguin Inc.
13. Eastman, Mary H. 1968 [1852] Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: The Gregg Press.
14. Ellison, Ralph 1966 Shadow and Act. New York: Signet.
15. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. 1984 The blackness of blackness: a critique of the sign and the Signifying Monkey. In Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (ed.), Black Literature and Literary Theory. New York: Routledge, 285-321.
16. Genovese, Eugene D. 1976 Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Random House.
17. Herskovits, Melville J. 1958 The Myth of the Negro Past. Boston: Beacon Press.
18. Kennedy, John Pendleton 1856 [1831] Swallow Barn; or, a Sojourn in the Old Dominion. New York: G. P. Putnam & Company.
19. Levine, Lawrence W. 1977 Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press.
20. Livermore, Mary A. 1897 The Story of My Life; or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years. Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington and Company.
21. Paine, Lewis W. 1851 Six Years in a Georgia Prison: Narrative of Lewis W. Paine. New York: Printed for the Author.
22. Pennington, W. C. 1969 [1849] The Fugitive Blacksmith: or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington. In Bontemps, Arna (ed.), Great Slave Narratives. Boston: Beacon Press. 193-267.
23. Perdue, Charles L., Thomas E. Barden, and Robert K. Phillips (eds.) 1976 Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
24. Rawick, George (ed.) 1972 The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
25. Simms, William Gilmore 1880 [1854] Woodcraft. Atlanta: The Martin & Hoyt Company.
26. Watkins, Mel 1994 On the Real Side: Laughing, Lying, and Signifying. New York: Simon & Schuster.