Humour in Times of Confrontation, 1901 to the Present

Humour in Times of Confrontation: 1901 to the Present examines the various and surprising ways in which humour has been powerfully employed, through a wider range of media than possible at any other time in history, as a response to conflict.

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Shun-Liang Chao is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He has authored Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crashaw, Baudelaire, Magritte (awarded the Anna Balakian Prize of the ICLA) and co-edited Humour in the Arts: New Perspectives and Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts.

Vivienne Westbrook is Professor of English and Cultural Studies. She holds honorary research positions in The School of Humanities and the Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, and in The School of Life Sciences at La Trobe University, Australia. She is a General Editor of Humour in Literature and Culture and Oceans, Seas and Shorelines: Cultural, Environmental and Natural Histories.

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Humour in Times of Confrontation: 1901 to the Present examines the various and surprising ways in which humour has been powerfully employed, through a wider range of media than possible at any other time in history, as a response to conflict.

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List of Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction: "[W]hen the world is torn apart by so much conflict and division"

Shun-Liang Chao and Vivienne Westbrook

Chapter One: Caricaturising the City: Humour and Racial Difference in New York City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Meaghan M. Walsh

Chapter Two: Red in the Face: The Great Depression, Nathanael West, and Cynical Humour

Richard Aldersley

Chapter Three: Juro Kubicêk's Mein K(r)ampf: Derision, Dissent, and Denazification in Post-War Berlin

Camilla Smith

Chapter Four: The Power and Limitations of Humour in State Socialist Hungary in the Aftermath of the 1956 Revolution

Lili Zách

Chapter Five: "A demonstration is also FUN":
Folk Humour and Play as Tactics to Disrupt the Rational State during the 1968 Protests

Laura Bowie

Chapter Six: Confronting Patriarchy: Humour and the British Women's Liberation Movement, 1968-1992

Sarah Crook

Chapter Seven: Riotous Laughter: LGBTQ+ Humour in the Age of Stonewall

Sarah Chant

Chapter Eight: Survivalist Humour: Improvising at the Turn of the Millennium

Gabe Beckhurst

Chapter Nine: Confronting China's "Little Pinks": Political Humour in Namewee's Love Song "Fragile"

Shun-Liang Chao

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