All joking aside : American humor and its discontents / Rebecca Krefting.

Author: Krefting, Rebecca, 1978- author.

Imprint:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]

Descriptionxi, 346 pages ; 23 cm

Note:Includes filmographies and discographies.

Note:Introduction: American humor and its discontents -- Making connections: building cultural citizenship through charged humor -- Twentieth-century stand-up: a history of charged humor -- Laughing into the new millennium -- When women perform charged humor: the (gendered) politics of consumption -- Robin Tyler: still 'working the crowd' -- Micia Mosely: humor out of the mouths of babes -- Hari Kondabolu: performing in the age of modern-day minstrelsy -- Conclusion: How to avoid the last laugh.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index.

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