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Rebellious laughter : people's humor in American culture / Joseph Boskin.
- Title
- Rebellious laughter : people's humor in American culture / Joseph Boskin.
- Author
- Boskin, Joseph.
- Publication
- Syracuse N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1997.
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- Description
- xii, 245 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Bringing together everyday language, social interaction and cultural warfare, this work forms a social history of humour in American culture. It argues that jokes provide a cultural barometer of concerns and anxieties, and that laughter is transformative.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-227) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part 1: Twentieth-century accents. American dream/American laugh ; The urban fulcrum ; Outsiders/insiders -- Part 2: Time frame. The child and the giant ; Repression and riposte ; Guerrilla satirists ; "Is there life before death?" ; The undeclared joke wars ; Comedic correctness ; Tribal reprisals ; The tattered dream ; Postlude : How many jokes does it take to change a zeitgeist?
- ISBN
- 0815627475 (alk. paper)
- 0815627483 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^97011092^
- OCLC
- 36647869
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library