Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1996. [Vol. 3.] Eger Journal of American Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 23)

STUDIES - Gabriella Varró: The Theme of Comic Love in Blackface Minstrelsy: The Anatomy of the Grotesque

detailed physical grotesque of the Ugly Female, its grotesque props (which in this case is the female nose and throat inferring male and female genitalia, respectively), grotesque theme (the ridicule of the black female to make her impossible for male desire), diction (where nonsense lines, grammatical and stylistic lapses are serving to establish the alleged inferiority and ridiculousness of the character) and the grotesque of the invoked stage movement: GAL FROM THE SOUTH Old massa own'd a coloured gall He bought her at the south

, Her hair it curl'd so bery tight, She couldn't shut her mouth, Her eyes dey were so bery big, Dey both run into one

, Sometimes a fly lights in her eye, Like a june-bug on de sun. Yah, ha, ha; yah, ha, ha, De gal From the south, Her hair it curl'd so bery tight, She couldn't shut her mouth. Her nose it was so bery long, It made her laugh, by gosh, For when she got her dander up, It turned up like a squash, Old massa had no hooks or nails, Nor nothin like ob dat; So on dis darkey's nose he used To hang his coat and hat. 112