Comedy Gold: Humor on the Alaska-Yukon Border, 1886-1896

IF 0.9 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Studies in American Humor Pub Date : 2021-03-25 DOI:10.5325/STUDAMERHUMOR.7.1.0086

C. Petrakos

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT:This article sketches a rough outline of ways humor and laughter were used in setting social boundaries along the Alaska-Yukon border in the decade before the Klondike gold rush (1896-1900). It maintains that humor possessed an extraordinary capacity to both collapse and sustain social hierarchies on the frontier—establishing in and out groups in the absence of any "official" state or national authority in the Far North, drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World as a theoretical framework to analyze humor's capacity to establish togetherness and otherness. Frontiersmen, this article suggests, harnessed the leveling power of humor to create in-groups while deploying it against Indians and Black Americans to define otherness.

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喜剧黄金:1886-1896年阿拉斯加-育空边境的幽默

摘要:本文概述了在克朗代克淘金热(1896-1900)之前的十年里，幽默和笑声是如何在阿拉斯加和育空地区边界划定社会界限的。它认为，幽默具有非凡的能力，既能瓦解也能维持边疆地区的社会等级制度——在遥远的北方，在没有任何“官方”国家或国家权威的情况下，在群体内外建立社会等级制度。它借鉴了米哈伊尔·巴赫金的《拉伯雷和他的世界》作为理论框架来分析幽默建立团结和他者的能力。这篇文章认为，拓荒者利用幽默的平衡力量来创造群体，同时利用幽默来对付印第安人和美国黑人，以定义他者性。

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Studies in American Humor HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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1.40

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90.00%

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期刊介绍： Welcome to the home of Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association. Founded by the American Humor Studies Association in 1974 and published continuously since 1982, StAH specializes in humanistic research on humor in America (loosely defined) because the universal human capacity for humor is always expressed within the specific contexts of time, place, and audience that research methods in the humanities strive to address. Such methods now extend well beyond the literary and film analyses that once formed the core of American humor scholarship to a wide range of critical, biographical, historical, theoretical, archival, ethnographic, and digital studies of humor in performance and public life as well as in print and other media. StAH’s expanded editorial board of specialists marks that growth. On behalf of the editorial board, I invite scholars across the humanities to submit their best work on topics in American humor and join us in advancing knowledge in the field.