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Author : Kliph Nesteroff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982103057
"From renowned comedy journalist and historian Kliph Nesteroff comes the underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy"--
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : OCLC:1088098907
Author : Walter Blair
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Humor
ISBN : UCAL:B4110345
Selected American humor, some excerpted.
Author : Eva Gruber
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571132570
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.
Author : James R. Aswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : OCLC:756895880
Author : Kenneth Lincoln
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195361650
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.
Author : Vine Deloria
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501188237
Standing Rock Sioux activist, professor, and attorney Vine Deloria, Jr., shares his thoughts about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists in a collection of eleven eye-opening essays infused with humor. This “manifesto” provides valuable insights on American Indian history, Native American culture, and context for minority protest movements mobilizing across the country throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Originally published in 1969, this book remains a timeless classic and is one of the most significant nonfiction works written by a Native American.
Author : Tiffany Midge
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496215574
Why is there no Native woman David Sedaris? Or Native Anne Lamott? Humor categories in publishing are packed with books by funny women and humorous sociocultural-political commentary—but no Native women. There are presumably more important concerns in Indian Country. More important than humor? Among the Diné/Navajo, a ceremony is held in honor of a baby’s first laugh. While the context is different, it nonetheless reminds us that laughter is precious, even sacred. Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge’s musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short, stand-alone musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice. She explains why she does not like pussy hats, mercilessly dismantles pretendians, and confesses her own struggles with white-bread privilege. Midge goes on to ponder Standing Rock, feminism, and a tweeting president, all while exploring her own complex identity and the loss of her mother. Employing humor as an act of resistance, these slices of life and matchless takes on urban-Indigenous identity disrupt the colonial narrative and provide commentary on popular culture, media, feminism, and the complications of identity, race, and politics.
Author : Walter Blair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : American literature
ISBN : OCLC:492223189
Author : Alison Owings
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813549651
A contemporary oral history documenting what Native Americans from 16 different tribal nations say about themselves and the world around them.
Author : James R. Aswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:634498262
Author : Vibha Vasi
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781647839550
“Humor is introduced into the new-born Native American or First Nations’ life as a ceremony… King’s stories show that there are other helpers of humor, like the trickster and the coyote, who play important roles in teaching and transforming through laughter.” - Native American and First Nations Humor Native American and First Nations Humor is a complete study of Thomas King’s humor and its basis in the oral traditions of the Native American and First Nations tribes. In this book, while analyzing the humor in the writings of Thomas King, the author explores the funny, wise, and helpful trickster of the Native American tradition. Yes, students of literature will find the book illuminating, but the general reader, too, will be informed by these interpretations written in an easy style. For those new to the subject, the book has introductory sections on Native American and First Nations’ history, the current realities, and the oral traditional belief system. The author pairs the insights on Native humor with familiar devices of humor, like the parody and irony. Here’s a rare look at laughter.
Author : Philip J. Deloria
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780700614592
Despite the passage of time, our vision of Native Americans remains locked up within powerful stereotypes. That's why some images of Indians can be so unexpected and disorienting: What is Geronimo doing sitting in a Cadillac? Why is an Indian woman in beaded buckskin sitting under a salon hairdryer? Such images startle and challenge our outdated visions, even as the latter continue to dominate relations between Native and non-Native Americans. Philip Deloria explores this cultural discordance to show how stereotypes and Indian experiences have competed for ascendancy in the wake of the military conquest of Native America and the nation's subsequent embrace of Native "authenticity." Rewriting the story of the national encounter with modernity, Deloria provides revealing accounts of Indians doing unexpected things-singing opera, driving cars, acting in Hollywood-in ways that suggest new directions for American Indian history. Focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--a time when, according to most standard American narratives, Indian people almost dropped out of history itself—Deloria argues that a great many Indians engaged the very same forces of modernization that were leading non-Indians to reevaluate their own understandings of themselves and their society. He examines longstanding stereotypes of Indians as invariably violent, suggesting that even as such views continued in American popular culture, they were also transformed by the violence at Wounded Knee. He tells how Indians came to represent themselves in Wild West shows and Hollywood films and also examines sports, music, and even Indian people's use of the automobile-an ironic counterpoint to today's highways teeming with Dakota pick-ups and Cherokee sport utility vehicles. Throughout, Deloria shows us anomalies that resist pigeonholing and force us to rethink familiar expectations. Whether considering the Hollywood films of James Young Deer or the Hall of Fame baseball career of pitcher Charles Albert Bender, he persuasively demonstrates that a significant number of Indian people engaged in modernity-and helped shape its anxieties and its textures-at the very moment they were being defined as "primitive." These "secret histories," Deloria suggests, compel us to reconsider our own current expectations about what Indian people should be, how they should act, and even what they should look like. More important, he shows how such seemingly harmless (even if unconscious) expectations contribute to the racism and injustice that still haunt the experience of many Native American people today.
Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781448188567
An all-new edition of the tragicomic smash hit which stormed the New York Times bestseller charts, now featuring an introduction from Markus Zusak. In his first book for young adults, Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, featuring poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, is based on the author's own experiences. It chronicles contemporary adolescence as seen through the eyes of one Native American boy. 'Excellent in every way' Neil Gaiman Illustrated in a contemporary cartoon style by Ellen Forney.
Author : Ricardo Cate
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781423630104
Cartoonist Ricardo Caté describes Indian humor as the result of “us living in a dominant culture, and the funny part is that we so often fall short of fitting in.” His cartoon column, Without Reservations, is a popular daily dose in the Santa Fe New Mexican. Actor Wes Studi says, “Caté’s cartoons serve to remind us there is always a different point of view, or laughing at every day scenes of home life where Indian kids act just like their brethren of different races. Without Reservations is always thought-provoking whether it makes you laugh, smirk, or just enjoy the diversity of thought to be found in Indian Country.”