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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lincoln, Kenneth, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Humor.

Indians of North America.

American wit and humor--History and criticism.

American wit and humor.

American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Indians of North America--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Indian humor.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-376) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772467-1

1-280-52569-X

0-19-536165-2

1-4294-0553-8

OCLC:

466425577