A laughable empire : the US imagines the Pacific world, 1840-1890 /

"Explores humor and satire as a comic contact zone between the United States and the Pacific world from 1840 to 1890. Considers how nineteenth-century Americans and Pacific Islanders used humor to employ stereotypes or to question them"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thompson, Todd Nathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]
Series:Humor in America.
Subjects:
American wit and humor > 19th century > History and criticism.
Satire, American > 19th century > History and criticism.
Pacific Islanders > Humor > History > 19th century.
Pacific Islanders in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Humour américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Océaniens > Humour > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Stéréotypes dans la littérature.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
American wit and humor
Imperialism in literature
Literature
Pacific Islanders in literature
Satire, American
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
Wit and humor
Islands of the Pacific > Humor > History > 19th century.
Islands of the Pacific > In literature.
Pacifique, Îles du > Humour > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Pacifique, Îles du > Dans la littérature.
Pacific Ocean > Islands of the Pacific
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The backwoodsman abroad : the Pacific imperialism of nineteenth-century American humor
  • Comic currents : Polynesians in periodicals
  • "Cheering for ye, cannibal" : the politics of boiled missionaries
  • Collecting the Pacific : a cabinet of comic curios
  • "Didn't our people laugh?" : humor as resistance.

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