A laughable empire: the US imagines the Pacific world, 1840-1890
In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible (i.e., "other") to American readers. A Laughable Empire examines this...
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| Zusammenfassung: | In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible (i.e., "other") to American readers. A Laughable Empire examines this substantial archival corpus, attempting to make sense of nineteenth-century American humor about Hawai'i and the rest of the Pacific world.Todd Nathan Thompson collects and interprets these comic, sometimes racist depictions of Pacific culture in nineteenth-century American print culture. Drawing on an archive of almanac and periodical humor, sea yarns, jest books, and literary comedy, Thompson demonstrates how jokes and humor functioned sometimes in the service of and sometimes in resistance to US imperial ambitions. Thompson also includes Indigenous voices and jokes lampooning Americans and their customs to show how humor served as an important cultural contact zone between the United States and the Pacific world. He considers how nineteenth-century Americans and Pacific Islanders alike used humor to employ stereotypes or to question them, to "other" the unknown or to interrogate, laughingly, the process by which "othering" occurs and is disseminated.Incisive and detailed, A Laughable Empire documents American humor about Pacific geography, food, dress, speech, and customs. Thompson sheds new light not only on nineteenth-century America's imperial ambitions but also on its deep anxieties |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 232 Seiten) Illustrationen |
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| spelling | Thompson, Todd Nathan Verfasser (DE-588)1078337799 aut A laughable empire the US imagines the Pacific world, 1840-1890 Todd Nathan Thompson University Park, Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State University Press [2023] 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 232 Seiten) Illustrationen txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Humor in America The backwoodsman abroad : the Pacific imperialism of nineteenth-century American humor -- Comic currents : Polynesians in periodicals -- "Cheering for ye, cannibal" : the politics of boiled missionaries -- Collecting the Pacific : a cabinet of comic curios -- "Didn't our people laugh?" : humor as resistance In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible (i.e., "other") to American readers. A Laughable Empire examines this substantial archival corpus, attempting to make sense of nineteenth-century American humor about Hawai'i and the rest of the Pacific world.Todd Nathan Thompson collects and interprets these comic, sometimes racist depictions of Pacific culture in nineteenth-century American print culture. Drawing on an archive of almanac and periodical humor, sea yarns, jest books, and literary comedy, Thompson demonstrates how jokes and humor functioned sometimes in the service of and sometimes in resistance to US imperial ambitions. Thompson also includes Indigenous voices and jokes lampooning Americans and their customs to show how humor served as an important cultural contact zone between the United States and the Pacific world. He considers how nineteenth-century Americans and Pacific Islanders alike used humor to employ stereotypes or to question them, to "other" the unknown or to interrogate, laughingly, the process by which "othering" occurs and is disseminated.Incisive and detailed, A Laughable Empire documents American humor about Pacific geography, food, dress, speech, and customs. Thompson sheds new light not only on nineteenth-century America's imperial ambitions but also on its deep anxieties HISTORY / United States / 19th Century bisacsh American wit and humor 19th century History and criticism Imperialism in literature Pacific Islanders in literature Pacific Islanders Humor History 19th century Satire, American 19th century History and criticism Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover 978-0-271-09504-2 (DE-604)BV049637878 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271096629 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
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