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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Todd Thompson, Todd Nathan Thompson, Todd Nathan (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) Thompson, Thompson Todd Nathan
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.2023
• EAN: 9780271095042
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09504-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 513 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Humor in America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HUMOR / Topic / Politics, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, HUMOR / Topic / Regional & Cultural