Indi'n humor : bicultural play in native America / / Kenneth Lincoln

• Autore: Lincoln Kenneth
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Disciplina: 970.004/97
• Soggetto topico: Indians of North America; American wit and humor; American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1993.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Indi'n humor
• ISBN: 0-19-772467-1; 1-280-52569-X; 0-19-536165-2; 1-4294-0553-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810316503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.