Aristotle's Comedy and the Name of the Ho

[alice malice]

Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a novel set during the American slave era,
presents the story of Sethe, an African American slave woman who
murders her own daughter in order to save her from a life of slavery.
Conjoining ‘laughter’ and ‘slavery,’ like combining ‘laughter’ and the
‘Holocaust,’ makes us react viscerally with discomfort and ethical
apprehension. Our culture seems to have some type of ‘slavery
etiquette’ comparable to Terrence Des Pres’ ‘Holocaust etiquette’
which makes us uncomfortable to speak of laughter in conjunction with
events so shameful and horrible. Nonetheless, Morrison’s work unveils
a profound relationship between laughter and African American
consciousness.

https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/imce/pdfs/webforum/072009/July%20RCWF%20Bussie.pdf

http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/9282890/Dwyer_gsas.harvard_0084L_10408.pdf?sequence=1

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