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Humour in Times of Confrontation: 1901 to the Present examines the various and surprising ways in which humour has been powerfully employed, through a wider range of media than possible at any other time in history, as a response to conflict.
List of contents
List of FiguresList of ContributorsIntroduction: "[W]hen the world is torn apart by so much conflict and division"
Shun-Liang Chao and Vivienne WestbrookChapter One: Caricaturising the City: Humour and Racial Difference in New York City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Meaghan M. WalshChapter Two: Red in the Face: The Great Depression, Nathanael West, and Cynical Humour
Richard AldersleyChapter Three: Juro Kubicêk's
Mein K(r)ampf: Derision, Dissent, and Denazification in Post-War Berlin
Camilla SmithChapter Four: The Power and Limitations of Humour in State Socialist Hungary in the Aftermath of the 1956 Revolution
Lili ZáchChapter Five: "A demonstration is also FUN":
Folk Humour and Play as Tactics to Disrupt the Rational State during the 1968 Protests
Laura BowieChapter Six: Confronting Patriarchy: Humour and the British Women's Liberation Movement, 1968-1992
Sarah CrookChapter Seven: Riotous Laughter: LGBTQ+ Humour in the Age of Stonewall
Sarah ChantChapter Eight: Survivalist Humour: Improvising at the Turn of the Millennium
Gabe BeckhurstChapter Nine: Confronting China's "Little Pinks": Political Humour in Namewee's Love Song "Fragile"
Shun-Liang ChaoIndex
About the author
Shun-Liang Chao is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He has authored
Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crashaw, Baudelaire, Magritte (awarded the Anna Balakian Prize of the ICLA) and co-edited
Humour in the Arts: New Perspectives and
Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts.
Vivienne Westbrook is Professor of English and Cultural Studies. She holds honorary research positions in The School of Humanities and the Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, and in The School of Life Sciences at La Trobe University, Australia. She is a General Editor of
Humour in Literature and Culture and
Oceans, Seas and Shorelines: Cultural, Environmental and Natural Histories. 
