Indi'n humor [[electronic resource] ] : bicultural play in native America / / Kenneth Lincoln

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451223103321
• Autore: Lincoln Kenneth
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993
• ISBN: 1-280-52569-X; 0-19-536165-2; 1-4294-0553-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Disciplina: 970.004/97
• Soggetti: Indians of North America; American wit and humor; American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-376) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; (Pre)amble; 1. Red/White American; 2. Historical Slippage; 3. Playing Indian; 4. Old Tricks, New Twists; 5. Feminist Indi'ns; 6. ""Bring Her Home"": Louise Erdrich; 7. Red Gods, Blue Humors: James Welch; 8. Comic Accommodations: Momaday and Norman; Coda; Appendix A: Reservation Jokes; Appendix B: Teaching Indi'n Humor; Appendix C: Interview with Hanay Geiogamah; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Humor and Joking of the American Indian: A Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing upon history, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and the arts, this book challenges ""wooden Indian"" stereotypes to redefine negative attitudes and humorless approaches to Native American peoples. Moving from tribal culture to interethnic literature, Lincoln covers thetraditional Trickster of origin myths, historical ironies, Euroamericans ""playing Indian,"" feminist Indian humor at home, contemporary painters and playwrights reinventing Coyote, popular mixed-blood music and Red English, and three Native American novelists, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, and N.Scott Moma