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

One morning massa gwain away, He went to get his coat, But nedder hat, nor coat, could find, For she had swollow'd both, He took her to the tailor's shop, To hab her mouth made small; De lady took in one long breath, A swollow's tailor and all. /Dennison 126/ WORKS CITED Barasch, Frances K. "Grotesque." Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs A-J. Ed. Jean-Charles Seigneuret. New York: Greenwood P., 1988. 559—571. Boskin, Joseph. Sambo: The Rise and Demise of an American Jester. New York: Oxford UP, 1986. Dennison, Sam. Scandalize My Name: Black Imagery in American Popular Music. New York: Garland, 1982. Lott, Eric. Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Makaryk, Irena R., ed. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory. Toronto: U. of Toronto P., 1993. Moody, Richard. "Negro Minstrelsy." Quarterly Journal of Speech 30 (1944): 321—8. Ostendorf, Berndt. Black Literature in White America. Totowa, N. J.: Barnes and Noble, 1982. Rehin, George F. "Harlequin Jim Crow: Continuity and Convergence in Blackface Clowning." Journal of Popular Culture 9.3 (1975): 682— 701. Saxton, Alexander. "Blackface Minstrelsy and Jacksonian Ideology." American Quarterly

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