literary, folk and popular culture
Edición de la obra Made-in-Canada humour
| Autor | Beverly Jean Rasporich |
|---|---|
| Editorial | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Fecha de publicación | 2015 |
| Lugar | Amsterdam, Philadelphia |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 300 |
| ISBN-13 | 9789027202307 |
| OCLC | 910980919 |
| LCCN | 2015022836, 2015023802 |
| Serie | Topics in humor research -- 3 |
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R227mMade-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.