Studies In American Humor

 

New Series 3, No. 8 (2001)

 

Special Issue:  Humor in Popular Culture

 

Judith Yaross Lee, Guest Editor

 

Teodora Carabas, Guest Editorial Assistant

 

Contents

 

Editorial

 

Humor in Popular Culture                                                                                  1

Judith Yaross Lee

 

Essays

 

Al Capp’s South:  Appalachian Humor in Li’l Abner                                           4

M. Thomas Inge

 

Getting Ethnically Humorous:  Dolores Prida’s Beautiful Señoritas                        21

María Luisa Ochoa Fernández

 

“We hope you like us, Jack”: The Kennedy-Era Satire of Victor Navasky’s            36

Monocle and Outsider’s Newsletter

Stephen Kercher

 

Treacherous Laughter:  The Poetry Slam, Slam Poetry,                                                49

and the Politics of Resistance                                   

Tyler Hoffman

 

The Year’s Work

 

The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2000                                                    65

Judith Yaross Lee

 

Reviews

 

Coyote at Large:  Humor in American Nature Writing,                                            79

by Katrina Schimmoeller Peiffer.  Reviewed by Joe Mills

 

Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America, by John Limon.                80

Reviewed by Gary Wiener         

 

The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary, ed. by David E. Schultz                                    81

and S. T. Joshi.  Reviewed by John Bird              

 

Woody, from Antz to Zelig:  A Reference Guide to Woody Allen’s Creative            83

Work, 1964-1998, by Richard A. Schwartz.  Reviewed by William F. Naufftus       

 

Literary Wit, by Bruce Michelson.  Reviewed by Ann Ryan                                        85

 

Contributors                                                                                                                        88

 

Announcements                                                                                                                    89