02892nam 2200601Ia 450 991045122310332120200520144314.01-280-52569-X0-19-536165-21-4294-0553-8(CKB)1000000000415559(EBL)271672(OCoLC)466425577(SSID)ssj0000178410(PQKBManifestationID)11169660(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000178410(PQKBWorkID)10221275(PQKB)11620363(MiAaPQ)EBC271672(Au-PeEL)EBL271672(CaPaEBR)ebr10278112(CaONFJC)MIL52569(EXLCZ)99100000000041555919910405d1993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIndi'n humor[electronic resource] bicultural play in native America /Kenneth LincolnNew York Oxford University Press19931 online resource (416 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-506887-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-376) and index.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; IndexDrawing 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 MomaIndians of North AmericaHumorAmerican wit and humorAmerican literatureIndian authorsHistory and criticismElectronic books.Indians of North AmericaAmerican wit and humor.American literatureIndian authorsHistory and criticism.970.004/97Lincoln Kenneth957013MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451223103321Indi'n humor2167408UNINA