"Raised by poodles" : an interview with Sensible Footwear / S. Hengen. Shakespeare's Rosalind : charactor of contingency / Yu Jin Ko -- "One said a jealous wife was like" : the constructions of wives and husbands in seventeenth-century English jests / J. Curlee -- The veiled laugh : women, the body, and the comic in nineteenth-century France / W. Johnson -- Nothing succeeds like excess : Lillian Shaw's comedy and sexuality on the Keith Vaudeville Circuit / M. Alison Kibler -- Camp, aestheticism, and cultural inclusiveness in Isherwood's Berlin Stories / D. Denisoff -- Being and dying as a woman in the short fiction of Dorothy Parker / A. Ivanov Craig -- Comic disruption in the work of Maxine Hong Kingston / J. Giese -- Read our lips : a re(media)l short course on liberating lesbianism / N. Reincke -- Parody and postmodern sex : humor in Thomas Pynchon and Tama Janowitz / C. L. Burns -- The war on the home front : comedy and political identity in the work of Stewart Home / K. Olson -- Heartburn, humor and hyberbole in Like Water for Chocolate / D. C. Niebylski -- Sneaky re-views : can Robert Townsend's taste for stereotypes contribute positively to identity politics? / H. Margolis -- Laughter, loss, and transformation in Fried Green Tomatoes / S. Zeck -- The "Attack behind the invitation" : gender parody in Karen Hines's Pochsy's Lips / C. Derksen -- "Raised by poodles" : an interview with Sensible Footwear / S. Hengen.
Summary:
Contributors investigate the effects of gender, sexuality, sexual identity, race, class, and nationality on humor and comedic performance. Each chapter addresses how particular historical periods seem to affect who laughs at what, why, and with what consequences.
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