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Humor in Contemporary Native North American Literature

Eva Gruber
Humor in Contemporary Native North American Literature Book PDF

Author : Eva Gruber
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571132570

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Humor in Contemporary Native North American Literature by Eva Gruber Pdf

Encompassing view of humor in recent Native North American literature, with particular focus on Native self-image and identity. In contrast to the popular cliché of the "stoic Indian," humor has always been important in Native North American cultures. Recent Native literature testifies to the centrality of this tradition. Yet literary criticism has so farlargely neglected these humorous aspects, instead frequently choosing to concentrate on representations of trauma and cultural disruption, at the risk of reducing Native characters and Native cultures to the position of the tragicvictim. This first comprehensive study explores the use of humor in today's Native writing, focusing on a wide variety of texts spanning all genres. It combines concepts from cultural studies and humor studies with approaches byNative thinkers and critics, analyzing the possible effects of humorous forms of representation on the self-image and identity formation of Native individuals and Native cultures. Humor emerges as an indispensable tool for engaging with existing stereotypes: Native writers subvert degrading clichés of "the Indian" from within, reimagining Nativeness in a celebration of laughing survivors, "decolonizing" the minds of both Native and non-native readers, andcontributing to a renewal of Native cultural identity. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Native Studies both literary and cultural. Due to its encompassing approach, it will also provide a point of entry for the wider readership interested in contemporary Native writing. Eva Gruber is Assistant Professor in the American Studies section of the Department of Literature at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Indi'n Humor

Kenneth Lincoln
Indi n Humor Book PDF

Author : Kenneth Lincoln
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195361650

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Indi'n Humor by Kenneth Lincoln Pdf

Drawing upon history, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and the arts, this book challenges "wooden Indian" stereotypes to redefine negative attitudes and humorless approaches to Native American peoples. Moving from tribal culture to interethnic literature, Lincoln covers the traditional Trickster of origin myths, historical ironies, Euroamericans "playing Indian," feminist Indian humor at home, contemporary painters and playwrights reinventing Coyote, popular mixed-blood music and Red English, and three Native American novelists, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, and N. Scott Momaday. Indi'n Humor documents and interprets the contexts of laughter among Native Americans, as they see and are seen by the rest of the world. The study comes to focus comically on the poets, visual artists, playwrights, and novelists who make up the cultural renaissance of the past twenty years.

Native American Humor

Walter Blair
Native American Humor Book PDF

Author : Walter Blair
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Humor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006462852

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Native American Humor by Walter Blair Pdf

Selected American humor, some excerpted.

The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature

R. Nischik
The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature Book PDF

Author : R. Nischik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137413901

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The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature by R. Nischik Pdf

A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures.

Faulkner and the Native South

Jay Watson,Annette Trefzer,James G. Thomas Jr.
Faulkner and the Native South Book PDF

Author : Jay Watson,Annette Trefzer,James G. Thomas Jr.
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496818126

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Faulkner and the Native South by Jay Watson,Annette Trefzer,James G. Thomas Jr. Pdf

Contributions by Eric Gary Anderson, Melanie R. Anderson, Jodi A. Byrd, Gina Caison, Robbie Ethridge, Patricia Galloway, LeAnne Howe, John Wharton Lowe, Katherine M. B. Osburn, Melanie Benson Taylor, Annette Trefzer, and Jay Watson From new insights into the Chickasaw sources and far-reaching implications of Faulkner’s fictional place-name “Yoknapatawpha,” to discussions that reveal the potential for indigenous land-, family-, and story-based methodologies to deepen understanding of Faulkner’s fiction (including but not limited to the novels and stories he devoted explicitly to Native American topics), the eleven essays of this volume advance the critical analysis of Faulkner’s Native South and the Native South’s Faulkner. Critics push beyond assessments of the historical accuracy of his Native representations and the colonial hybridity of his Indian characters. Essayists turn instead to indigenous intellectual culture for new models, problems, and questions to bring to Faulkner studies. Along the way, readers are treated to illuminating comparisons between Faulkner’s writings and the work of a number of Native American authors, filmmakers, tribal leaders, and historical figures. Faulkner and the Native South brings together Native and non-Native scholars in a stimulating and often surprising critical dialogue about the indigenous wellsprings of Faulkner’s creative energies and about Faulkner’s own complicated presence in Native American literary history.

Humor in Latin American Cinema

Juan Poblete,Juana Suárez
Humor in Latin American Cinema Book PDF

Author : Juan Poblete,Juana Suárez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137543578

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Humor in Latin American Cinema by Juan Poblete,Juana Suárez Pdf

This book addresses a variety of regional humor traditions such as exploitation cinema, Brazilian chanchada, the Cantinflas heritage, the comedy of manners and light sexuality, iconic figures and characters, as well as a variety of humor registers evident in different Latin American films.

Native American Writers

Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
Native American Writers Book PDF

Author : Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438134390

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Native American Writers by Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a collection of critical essays analyzing modern Native American writers including Joy Harjo, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, and more.

The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America

Bruce E. Johansen
The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America Book PDF

Author : Bruce E. Johansen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313082542

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The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America by Bruce E. Johansen Pdf

Most Americans know very little about Native America. For many, most of their knowledge comes from an amalgam of three sources—a barely remembered required history class in elementary school, Hollywood movies, and debates in the news media over casinos or sports mascots. This two-volume set deals with these issues as well as with more important topics of concern to the future of Native Americans, including their health, their environment, their cultural heritage, their rights, and their economic sustainability. This two-volume set is one of few guides to Native American revival in our time. It includes detailed descriptions of efforts throughout North America regarding recovery of languages, trust funds, economic base, legal infrastructure, and agricultural systems. The set also includes personal profiles of individuals who have sparked renewal, from Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a leader among the Inuit whose people deal with toxic chemicals and global warming, to Ernest Benedict and Ray Fadden, who brought pride to Mohawk children long before the idea was popular. Also included are descriptions of struggles over Indian mascots, establishment of multicultural urban centers, and ravages of uranium mining among the Navajo. The set ends with a detailed development of contemporary themes in Native humor as a coping mechanism. Delving occasionally into historical context, this set includes valuable background information on present-day controversies that are often neglected by the news media. For example, the current struggles to recover Native American trust funds and languages both emerged from a cradle-to-grave control system developed by the U.S. and Canadian governments. These efforts are part of a much broader Native American effort to recover from pervasive poverty and reassert Native American economic independence. Is gambling an answer to poverty, the new buffalo, as some Native Americans have called it? The largest Native American casino to date has been the Pequots' Foxwoods, near Ledyard, Connecticut. In other places, such as the New York Oneidas' lands in Upstate New York, gambling has provided an enriched upper class the means to hire police to force anti-gambling traditionalists from their homes. Among the Mohawks at Akwesasne, people have died over the issue. This two-volume set brings together all of these struggles with the attention to detail they have always deserved and rarely received.

Make 'em Laugh!

Zeke Jarvis
Make em Laugh Book PDF

Author : Zeke Jarvis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440829956

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Make 'em Laugh! by Zeke Jarvis Pdf

This lighthearted and eye-opening book explores the role of comedy in cultural and political critiques of American society from the past century. This unprecedented look at the history of satire in America showcases the means by which our society is informed by humor—from the way we examine the news, to how we communicate with each other, to what we seek out for entertainment. From biographical information to critical reception of material and personalities, the book features humorists from both literary and popular culture settings spanning the past 100 years. Through its 180 entries, this comprehensive volume covers a range of artists—individuals such as Joan Rivers, Hunter S. Thompson, and Chris Rock—and topics, including vaudeville, cartoons, and live performances. The content is organized by media and genre to showcase connections between writers and performers. Chapters include an alphabetical listing of humorists grouped by television and film stars, stand-up and performance comics, literary humorists, and humorists in popular print.

Comparative North American Studies

Reingard M. Nischik
Comparative North American Studies Book PDF

Author : Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137559654

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Comparative North American Studies by Reingard M. Nischik Pdf

Merging selected approaches to Comparative North American Studies with detailed textual analyses, this book studies works of writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, and Margaret Atwood. Topics include comparative approaches to the North American modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, and North American reviews of Atwood's novels.

Thomas King

Eva Gruber
Thomas King Book PDF

Author : Eva Gruber
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781571134356

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Thomas King by Eva Gruber Pdf

A comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the work of one of the foremost Native North American writers and his reception and influence. Thomas King is one of North America's foremost Native writers, best known for his novels, including Green Grass, Running Water, for the DreadfulWater mysteries, and for collections of short stories such as One Good Story, That One and A Short History of Indians in Canada. But King is also a poet, a literary and cultural critic, and a noted filmmaker, photographer, and scriptwriter and performer for radio. His career and oeuvre have been validated by literary awards and by the inclusion of his writing in college and university curricula. Critical responses to King's work have been abundant, yet most of this criticism consists of journal articles, and to date only one book-length study of his work exists. Thomas King: Works and Impact fills this gap by providing an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of all major aspects of King's oeuvre as well as its reception and influence. It brings together expert scholars to discuss King's role in and impact on Native literature and to offer in-depth analyses of his multifaceted body of work. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, English, and Native American studies, and to King aficionados. Contributors: Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber, Julia Breitbach, Stuart Christie, James H. Cox, Marta Dvorak, Floyd Favel, Kathleen Flaherty, Aloys Fleischmann, MarleneGoldman, Eva Gruber, Helen Hoy, Renée Hulan and Linda Warley, Carter Meland, Reingard M. Nischik, Robin Ridington, Suzanne Rintoul, Katja Sarkowsky, Blanca Schorcht, Mark Shackleton, Martin Kuester and Marco Ulm, Doris Wolf. Eva Gruber is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies

Birgit Däwes,Karsten Fitz,Sabine N. Meyer
Twenty First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies Book PDF

Author : Birgit Däwes,Karsten Fitz,Sabine N. Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317507345

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Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies by Birgit Däwes,Karsten Fitz,Sabine N. Meyer Pdf

In recent years, the interdisciplinary fields of Native North American and Indigenous Studies have reflected, at times even foreshadowed and initiated, many of the influential theoretical discussions in the humanities after the "transnational turn." Global trends of identity politics, performativity, cultural performance and ethics, comparative and revisionist historiography, ecological responsibility and education, as well as issues of social justice have shaped and been shaped by discussions in Native American and Indigenous Studies. This volume brings together distinguished perspectives on these topics by the Native scholars and writers Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe), Diane Glancy (Cherokee), and Tomson Highway (Cree), as well as non-Native authorities, such as Chadwick Allen, Hartmut Lutz, and Helmbrecht Breinig. Contributions look at various moments in the cultural history of Native North America—from earthmounds via the Catholic appropriation of a Mohawk saint to the debates about Makah whaling rights—as well as at a diverse spectrum of literary, performative, and visual works of art by John Ross, John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, Emily Pauline Johnson, Leslie Marmon Silko, Emma Lee Warrior, Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday, Stephen Graham Jones, and Gerald Vizenor, among others. In doing so, the selected contributions identify new and recurrent methodological challenges, outline future paths for scholarly inquiry, and explore the intersections between Indigenous Studies and contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies at large.

Arabic Literature for the Classroom

Mushin J al-Musawi
Arabic Literature for the Classroom Book PDF

Author : Mushin J al-Musawi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781315451640

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Arabic Literature for the Classroom by Mushin J al-Musawi Pdf

14. The politics of perception in post-revolutionaryEgyptian cinema -- Reel revolutions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART III: Text -- 15. Teaching the maqâmât in translation -- Maqâmât and translation -- Teaching the maqâmât -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 16. Ibn Hazm: Friendship, love and the quest for justice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 17. The Story of Zahra and its critics: Feminism and agency at war -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 18. The Arabic frametale and two European offspring -- Introduction -- The 1001 Nights -- The Book of Kalīla wa-Dimna -- The Maqāmāt -- The Book of Good Love -- The Canterbury Tales -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 19. Teaching the Arabian Nights -- The fourteenth-century manuscript -- The translator as producer -- A translation venture in a classroom -- Galland's translation in context -- Entry into the French milieu -- The twentieth century: how different? -- In world literature: a comparative sketch before and after -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Afterword: Teaching Arabic literature, Columbia University, May 2010 -- Index

In the Belly of a Laughing God

Jennifer Andrews
In the Belly of a Laughing God Book PDF

Author : Jennifer Andrews
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442657724

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In the Belly of a Laughing God by Jennifer Andrews Pdf

How can humour and irony in writing both create and destroy boundaries? In the Belly of a Laughing God examines how eight contemporary Native women poets in Canada and the United States – Joy Harjo, Louise Halfe, Kimberly Blaeser, Marilyn Dumont, Diane Glancy, Jeannette Armstrong, Wendy Rose, and Marie Annharte Baker – employ humour and irony to address the intricacies of race, gender, and nationality. While recognizing that humour and irony are often employed as methods of resistance, this careful analysis also acknowledges the ways that they can be used to assert or restore order. Using the framework of humour and irony, five themes emerge from the words of these poets: religious transformations; generic transformations; history, memory, and the nation; photography and representational visibility; and land and the significance of 'home.' Through the double-voice discourse of irony and the textual surprises of humour, these poets challenge hegemonic renderings of themselves and their cultures, even as they enforce their own cultural norms.

Louis Owens

Joe Lockard,A. Robert Lee
Louis Owens Book PDF

Author : Joe Lockard,A. Robert Lee
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826360984

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Louis Owens by Joe Lockard,A. Robert Lee Pdf

Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy explores the wide-ranging oeuvre of this seminal author, examining Owens's work and his importance in literature and Native studies. Of Choctaw, Cherokee, and Irish American descent, Owens's work includes mysteries, novels, literary scholarship, and autobiographical essays. Louis Owens offers a critical introduction and thirteen essays arranged into three sections: "Owens and the World," "Owens and California," and "The Novels." The essays present an excellent assessment of Owens's literary legacy, noting his contributions to American literature, ethnic literature, and Native American literature and highlighting his contributions to a variety of theories and genres. The collection concludes with a coda of personal poetic reflections on Owens by Diane Glancy and Kimberly Blaeser. Libraries, students, scholars, and the general public interested in Native American literature and the landscape of contemporary US literature will welcome this reflective volume that analyzes a vast range of Louis Owens's imaginative fictions, personal accounts, and critical work.