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Amazon.com 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.
Hilarious reading for African American Women and AfrAm. Men!:
This book has been the "Hit" of several recent book parties in The San Francisco East Bay and South Bay Areas. Dr. Dance's book evokes memories of Black humor we rarely are exposed to anymore. These anthologies are the best I have read in years. We can still laugh at ourselves and love the humor in the antidotes.
Hilarious, and true.:
This is an enormously funny, if often slightly risque, anthology. I took it to the office, and my African American fellow workers can't put it down. Ever since I brought it in, periodically there are howls of laughter from around the building. And several of them have told me that they have heard some of these stories and sayings from their own relatives and friends. Highly recommended!
EVERY BLACK WOMAN CAN TRULY RELATE:
This is by far the greatest anthology that I have ever laid eyes on. It was very well put together!
I wish ... had six stars:
This books is off the charts! Ive been reading for a long time, and this book just encompasses so much for the African American experience. My favorite parts of each chapter are the anecdotes and sayings found at the end of each respectively. Purchase this book and pass it on other everyone you know who needs a laugh!
Great Collection...a must have.:
Very good collection of African American writting. I enjoyed it.
| Binding: | Hardcover | | Dewey Decimal Number: | 817.0080928708996073 | | EAN: | 9780393045574 | | ISBN: | 0393045579 | | Number Of Pages: | 673 | | Publication Date: | 1997-11 |
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