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

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

Daryl Cumber Dance (Editor), Nikki Giovanni (Foreword by)
$37.50
Publication Date: November 17th, 1998
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9780393318180
Pages:
718
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Description

The vibrant humor of African American women is celebrated in this bold and unique collection that the Miami Herald describes as "breathtakingly broad and deep."

In this "dazzling anthology" (Publishers Weekly), Daryl Cumber Dance has collected the often hard-hitting, sometimes risqué, always dramatic humor that arises from the depth of black women's souls and the breadth of their lives. The eloquent wit and laughter of African American women are presented here in all their written and spoken manifestations: autobiographies, novels, essays, poems, speeches, comic routines, proverbial sayings, cartoons, mimeographed sheets, and folk tales. The chapters proceed thematically, covering the church, love, civil rights, motherly advice, and much more.

About the Author

Daryl Cumber Dance is a professor at the University of Richmond and the author of numerous works including Shuckin' and Jivin' and Long Gone.

Praise for Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor

Dance leavens this mixture of humorous work by well-known authors such as novelist April Sinclair and poet Maya Angelou with a sprinkling of salty proverbs. . . . The result makes for many hours of enjoyable reading on subjects from O. J. to rum cake.
— Newsday