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No laughing matter : visual humor in ideas of race, nationality, and ethnicity /
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, this collection--which gathers scholars in the fields of race, ethnicity, and humor--seems especially urgent. Inspired by Denmark's Muhammad cartoons controversy, the contributors inquire into the role that racial and ethnic stereotypes play in visual h...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Hanover, New Hampshire :
Dartmouth College Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Interfaces, studies in visual culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Carnivalesque and grotesque : what Bakhtin's laughter tells us about art and culture / Kobena Mercer
- Encountering humor : racial, national, and ethnic stereotypes. Bartolomeo Passarotti and "comic" images of Black Africans in early modern Italian art / Paul H.D. Kaplan ; "If you tickle us, do we not laugh?" : stereotypes of Jews in English graphic humor of the Georgian era / Frank Felsenstein ; James Gillray, Charles James Fox, and the abolition of the slave trade : caricature and displacement in the debate over reform / Katherine Hart ; The other within / Allen Hockley ; Material culture, slavery, and governability in colonial Cuba : the humorous lessons of the cigarette Marquillas / Agnes Lugo-Ortiz
- Racial humor and theories of modern media. Fake nostalgia for the Indian : the Argentinean fiction of national identity in the comics of Patoruzú / Ana Merino ; Passing for history : humor and early television historiography / Mark Williams ; Comical conflations : racial identity and the science of photography / Tanya Sheehan
- Performative comedy and race. Laughter as performance : some eighteenth-century examples / David Bindman ; Bittersweet Blackness : humor and the assertion of ethnic identity in Eleanor Antin's Eleanora Antinova / Cherise Smith ; Traveling humor reimagined : the comedic unhinging of the western gaze in Caribbean postcards / Sam Vásquez ; Springtime for Hitler every year : Dani Levy's Hitler comedy My Führer (2007) / Veronika Fuechtner.