Made-in-Canada Humour (Topics in Humor Research) - Hardcover

Rasporich, Beverly J.

9789027202307: Made-in-Canada Humour (Topics in Humor Research)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027202303 ISBN 13: 9789027202307

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015

Made-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.

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