【正确答案】正确答案：black humor: Black humor is a major literary trend popular in 1960s in America, represented by Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon. The term is mostly employed to describe baleful, naive or inept characters in a fantastic or nightmarish modern world playing out their roles in a "tragic farce" , in which the events are often simultaneously comic, horrifying and absurd.