All joking aside [electronic resource] : American humor and its discontents / Rebecca Krefting.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9781421414317
- 1421414317
- 792.7/60973 23
- PN1969.C65 .K74 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: American humor and its discontents -- Making connections: building cultural citizenship through charged humor -- Twentieth-century stand-up: a history of charged humor -- Laughing into the new millennium -- When women perform charged humor: the (gendered) politics of consumption -- Robin Tyler: still 'working the crowd' -- Micia Mosely: humor out of the mouths of babes -- Hari Kondabolu: performing in the age of modern-day minstrelsy -- Conclusion: How to avoid the last laugh.
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