Todd Nathan Thompson

Gebundenes Buch

Humor in America

The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840-1890

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Todd Nathan Thompson is Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The National Joker: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire and Contributing Editor to Studies in American Humor .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penn State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9780271095042
• ISBN-10: 0271095040
• Artikelnr.: 65919812