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Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon intimately examines writers, such as Louise Bennett, Aimé Césaire, Junot DÃaz, Zora Neale Hurston, Derek Walcott, and Anthony Winkler, who engage humor to challenge representations of people of African descent within canonical Western texts and forms. Vásquez uses the term ’literary crossing’ to account for appropriation practices particular to the Caribbean and performs critical analyses of contemporary trickster figures in such literature. Ultimately, this study shows that humor is used not just to survive and subvert the Western context, but as a form of self-production that opens up a space for bodies, discourses, and realities that had previously gone unrecognized or unappreciated.
