Me Funny

Klappentext Humor has always been an essential part of North American aboriginal culture. This fact remained unnoticed by most settlers, however, since non-aboriginals just didn't get the joke. For most of written history, a stern, unyielding profile of "the Indian" dominated the popular mainstream imagination. Indians, it was believed, never laughed. But Indians themselves always knew better. As an award-winning playwright, columnist, and comedy-sketch creator, Drew Hayden Taylor has spent 15 years writing and researching aboriginal humor. For "Me Funny, " he asked a noted cast of writers from a variety of fields -- including such celebrated wordsmiths as Thomas King, Allan J. Ryan, Mirjam Hirch, and Tomson Highway -- to take a look at what makes aboriginal humor tick. Their hilarious, enlightening contributions playfully examine the use of humor in areas as diverse as stand-up comedy, fiction, visual art, drama, performance, poetry, traditional storytelling, and education.

Product details

• Authors: Drew Hayden (EDT) Taylor
• Assisted by: Drew Hayden Taylor (Editor), Drew Hayden Taylor (Editor)
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2006
• EAN: 9781553651376
• ISBN: 978-1-55365-137-6
• No. of pages: 191
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; HUMOR / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Humour, Humour collections & anthologies, Humour collections and anthologies