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Title The politics of humour : laughter, inclusion, and exclusion in the twentieth century / edited by Martina Kessel and Patrick Merziger.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012.
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations, digital file.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series German and European studies
German and European studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction. Landscapes of Humour: The History and Politics of the Comical in the Twentieth Century / Martina Kessel -- 1 When Are Jewish Jokes No Longer Funny? Ethnic Humour in Imperial and Republican Berlin / Peter Jelavich -- 2 Creole Cartoons / Mark Winokur -- 3 Talking War, Debating Unity: Order, Conflict, and Exclusion in 'German Humour' in the First World War / Martina Kessel -- 4 Producing a Cheerful Public: Light Radio Entertainment during National Socialism / Monika Pater -- 5 Humour in the Volksgemeinschaft : The Disappearance of Destructive Satire in National Socialist Germany / Patrick Merziger -- 6 Laughing to Keep from Dying: Jewish Self-Hatred and The Larry Sanders Show / Vincent Brook -- 7 Ethnic Humour and Ethnic Politics in the Netherlands: The Rules and Attraction of Clandestine Humour / Giselinde Kuipers -- 8 'The Tongues of Mocking Wenches': Humour and Gender in Late Twentieth-Century British Fiction / Eileen Gillooly.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject European wit and humor -- History and criticism.
European wit and humor.
American wit and humor -- History and criticism.
American wit and humor.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Kessel, Martina.
Merziger, Patrick.
Other Form: Print version: Kessel, Martina. Politics of Humour : Laughter, Inclusion and Exclusion in the Twentieth Century. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2000 9781442642928
ISBN 9781442695122 (electronic book)
1442695129 (electronic book)