Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393045579 ISBN 13: 9780393045574

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Compiled by a Professor of English at the University of Richmond in Virginia, a collection of humorous quotes and writings of African-American women throughout history ranges from slave narrators to Toni Morrison and Whoopi Goldberg.

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Review:

This massive (nearly 700 pages) anthology offers a fascinating survey of black women's humor, compiled from folk sources, the blues, and poetry, fiction, anecdotal recollections, and routines by such comedians as the late Jackie "Moms" Mabley. The title, editor Daryl Cumber Dance informs, is a "playful entreaty" that black women use to encourage each other or to express disbelief in private conversations when swapping jokes and tall tales. Some of the material in Honey, Hush is a bit bawdy and off-color, and Dance, a professor of English at the University of Richmond in Virginia, warns that "humor is often unkind, unfair, and unjust." Enter with an open mind and a willingness to laugh, however, and you'll be sure to have fun.

About the Author:

Daryl Cumber Dance is the author of Shuckin' and Jivin', Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans, Long Gone, Fifty Caribbean Writers, and New World Adams: Conversations with Contemporary West Indian Writers. She is a professor of English at the University of Richmond in Virginia.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0393045579
• ISBN 13: 9780393045574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 673
• Editor: Dance Daryl Cumber