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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Martina Kessel and Patrick Merziger Klappentext The Politics of Humour offers an intriguing look at how entertainment helped everyday people make sense of the turmoil of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung The Politics of Humour offers an intriguing look at how entertainment helped everyday people make sense of the turmoil of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction: Landscapes of Humour. The History and Politics of the Comical in the Twentieth Century by Martina Kesse (University of Bielefeld, Germany) When Are Jewish Jokes No Longer Funny? Ethnic Humour in Imperial and Republican Berlin by Peter Jelavich (Johns Hopkins University) Creole Cartoons by Mark Winokur (University of Colorado) Talking War, Debating Unity. Order, Conflict, and Exclusion in 'German Humour' in World War One by Martina Kessel Producing a Cheerful Public. Light Radio Entertainment During National Socialism by Monika Pater (Hamburg University) Humour in the Volksgemeinschaft. The Disappearance of Destructive Satire in National Socialist Germany by Patrick Merziger (University of Colorado) Laughing to Keep from Dying: Jewish Self-Hatred and The Larry Sanders Show by Vincent Brook (UCLA, USC, Cal-State LA, and Pierce College) Ethnic Humour and Ethnic Politics in the Netherlands at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: The Rules and Attraction of Clandestine Humour by Giselinde Kuipers (University of Amsterdam) The Tongues of Mocking Wenches: Humour and Gender in Late Twentieth-Century British Fiction by Eileen Gillooly (Columbia University) List of Contributors
