黑色幽默 black humor

1、KatherineWhat is Black Humor? Gallow Humor(绞刑架下的幽默) black： horrifying ,desperate & absurd reality humor: bitter and often outrageous satire black humor = tragic farce What is Black Humor? 在一个对死囚执行绞刑的日子，绞架旁聚集了大批观众。可是囚犯迟迟未来。监刑人、刽子手和人群已开始不耐烦。终于，狱卒押着囚犯来到刑场。囚犯看到人们焦急贪婪的目光不禁笑了,他看着人群说：“没有我，你们什么也干不成。”Wha

2、t is Black Humor?Black humor frequently satirizes societys institutions, including government bureaucracies, the military, and large corporations, depicting them as dehumanizing organizations. Black humor is usually related to death, which is a taboo subject in daily life. Sample 1Sample 2 And let m

3、e tell you something - if you go to the emergency room and youve got a knife still stuck in your head, you go to the front of the line. Youre next. Excuse me. I aint got time to fill out no forms.THREE EXPLORERS CHOOSE THEIR DEATHSA Frenchman, an Englishman and a New Yorker are exploring the jungle

4、and are captured by a fierce tribe.The chief tells them, The bad news is that weve caught you, were going to kill you, and then use your skins to build a canoe. The good news is that you get to choose how you die.The Frenchman says, I take ze poison. The chief gives him some poison; the Frenchman sa

5、ys, Vive la France! and drinks it down.The Englishman says, A pistol for me, please. The chief gives him a pistol; the Brit points it at his head, says, God save the Queen! and blows his brains out.The New Yorker says, Gimme a fork. The chief is puzzled, but he shrugs and gives him a fork. The New Y

6、orker takes the fork and jabs himself all over - the stomach, the sides, the chest, everywhere. Blood gushes from every hole.The chief screams, What are you doing?The New Yorker looks at the chief and says, So much for your canoe, a*hole!THREE EXPLORERS CHOOSE THEIR DEATHSTheNewYorkersays,Gimmeafork

7、.Thechiefispuzzled,butheshrugsandgiveshimafork.TheNewYorkertakestheforkandjabshimselfallover-thestomach,thesides,thechest,everywhere.Bloodgushesfromeveryhole.Thechiefscreams,Whatareyoudoing?TheNewYorkerlooksatthechiefandsays,Somuchforyourcanoe,a*hole!What is Black Humor?Function to express the absur

8、dity, insensitivity, paradox, and cruelty of the modern world. to provoke serious thought as well as amusement in their audience. Coined in France Black humor is a term coined by Surrealist theoretician Andr Breton in 1935, to designate a sub-genre of comedy and satire in which laughter arises from

9、cynicism and skepticism, often about the topic of death. Ordinary characters or situations are usually exaggerated far beyond the limits of normal satire or irony.Adoption in American literature In contemporary literary criticism, black humor is a term applies to a large group of American novels beg

10、inning in the 1960s. An English-language anthology（文集） edited by Bruce Jay Friedman, titled Black Humor, imported the concept to the U.S., labeling with it very different authors and works, arguing that they shared the same literary genre.Characteristics of novels 1 humor and horror I want them to l

11、augh,and then reflect with horror. non-direct/ allegorical satire2、anti-hero the futility of attempting to beat the paradoxes of a meaningless universe and an absurd world3、anti-novel devoid of completeness of plot characterized by fragmentation and dislocation. Representative Writers Joseph Heller 约瑟夫海勒 Kurt Vonnegut 库尔特冯内古特 Thomas Pynchon 托马斯品钦 Representative writer Joseph Heller An American satirical novelist, short story writer and playwright. (May