Studies in American Humor

 

New Series 3, No. 7 (2000)

 

Special Issue: Humor and Ethnicity in the Americas

 

Contents

 

 

Editorial 

 

The Editor’s Drawers                                                                                                                     ii

 

Humor and Ethnicity in the Americas / On the Borderlands

Karen L. Kilcup                                                                                                                          1

 

Essays

 

Laughter in the Aisles:
Affect and Power in Contemporary Theoretical and Cultural Discourse    

John Bruns                                                                                                                                  5

 

Hybrid History: The Pequot War and American Indian Humor

Dennis R. Perry                                                                                                                        25

 

Humor in Spain’s American Colonies: The Case of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Julie Greer Johnson                                                                                                                 35

 

The Recovery Room

 

The Comedy of Assimilation in Leo Rosten’s Hyman Kaplan Stories

Dan Shiffman                                                                                                                            49

 

Mr. K and the Magi, by Leo Rosten                                                                                    59

 

The Year’s Work

 

The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 1999

Judith Yaross Lee                                                                                                                    65

 

Reviews

 

Mark Twain: A Literary Life, by Everett Emerson.   Rev. by John Bird                                 75

 

Encyclopedia of 20th-Century American Humor, by Alleen Pace Nilsen

 

and Don L. F. Nilsen.   Rev. by Joseph B. McCullough                                                    76

 

Performing Gender and Comedy: Theories, Texts, and Contexts,

 

ed. Shannon Hengen.   Rev. by Ann Ryan                                                                          77

 

Inventing Jerry Lewis, by Frank Krutnik.  Rev. by  J. P. Steed                                                80

 

The Trickster Shift: Humor and Irony in Contemporary Native Art,

 

by Allan J. Ryan.   Rev. by James E. Caron                                                                         82

 

Humor in Twentieth-Century British Literature: A Reference Guide,

 

by Don L. F. Nilsen.   Rev. by William F. Naufftus                                              83

 

Defining New Yorker Humor, by Judith Yaross Lee.  Rev. by Bruce Michelson                  85

 

Contributors                                                                                                   88

 

Announcements                                                                                               89