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Black Humor Black humor is an important literary term of America in 1960’s.The word black humor comes from a name of a book, which is written by B.J. Friedman. Black humor refers primarily to a kind of bitter and often outrageous satire. Ordinary characters or situations are usually exaggerated far beyond the limits of normal satire or irony. Black humor uses devices often associated with tragedy and is sometimes equated with tragic farce. 2.Development (1) Coinage(创造) in France Black humor is a term coined by Surrealist theoretician André Breton in 1935, to designate a sub-genre of come