Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor

By: Dance, Daryl Cumber

Book Overview

In this dazzling anthology (Publishers Weekly), Daryl Cumber Dance has collected the often hard-hitting, sometimes risqu?, always dramatic humor that arises from the depth of black women's souls and the breadth of their lives. The eloquent wit and laughter of African American women are presented here in all their written and spoken manifestations: autobiographies, novels, essays, poems, speeches, comic routines, proverbial sayings, cartoons, mimeographed sheets, and folk tales. The chapters proceed thematically, covering the church, love, civil rights, motherly advice, and much more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393318184
• ISBN13: 9780393318180
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 718 Pages
• Weight: 2.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

I wish ... had six stars

This books is off the charts! Ive been reading for a long time, and this book just encompasses so much for the African American experience. My favorite parts of each chapter are the anecdotes and sayings found at the end of each respectively. Purchase this book and pass it on other everyone you know who needs a laugh!

Hilarious reading for African American Women and AfrAm. Men!

This book has been the "Hit" of several recent book parties in The San Francisco East Bay and South Bay Areas. Dr. Dance's book evokes memories of Black humor we rarely are exposed to anymore. These anthologies are the best I have read in years. We can still laugh at ourselves and love the humor in the antidotes.

EVERY BLACK WOMAN CAN TRULY RELATE

This is by far the greatest anthology that I have ever laid eyes on. It was very well put together!

Hilarious, and true.

This is an enormously funny, if often slightly risque, anthology. I took it to the office, and my African American fellow workers can't put it down. Ever since I brought it in, periodically there are howls of laughter from around the building. And several of them have told me that they have heard some of these stories and sayings from their own relatives and friends. Highly recommended!

It is so funny and down to earth.

I really enjoyed each entry. Dr. Dance did a wonderful job at pulling of the pieces together. The poetry, the short stories, and the excerpts from different authors. I have given it twice as a gift and each time the individuals have thoroughly enjoyed the reading.