Made-in-Canada Humour: Literary, folk and popular cultureMade-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall tales in the country and the city; newspaper print humorists; representative national and regional cartoonists; and comedians of stage, radio and television. The humour gives voice to Canadian values and experiences, and consequently, techniques and styles of humour particular to the country. While a persistent comic theme has been joking at the expense of the United States, both countries have influenced one another’s humour. Canada’s unique humorous tradition also reflects its emergence from a colonial country to a postcolonial and postmodern nation with contemporary humour that addresses gender and racial issues. |
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Contents
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Bridging Uncle Sam and Mother England | 37 |
The Side Hill Gouger and other myths | 77 |
Protest and resistance | 111 |
Amusing the people and provoking the politicians | 163 |
Ethnicity race and gender | 209 |
Towards a continental humour | 241 |
Conclusion | 275 |
Previous publications | 277 |
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Made-in-Canada Humour: Literary, Folk and Popular Culture Beverly Jean Rasporich No preview available - 2015 |
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