Black Humor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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BLACK HUMOR in literature, drama, and film, grotesque or morbid humor used to express the...The novels of such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Joseph Heller, and Philip Roth contain elements of black humor...