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{"title":"The Editor’s Drawers","authors":"David Gillota","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0203","url":null,"abstract":"Dear readers,I am pleased to present issue 9.2 of Studies in American Humor. Once again, we have an issue that represents the breadth of work being done in American humor studies, with essays focusing on poetry, drama, late-night television, and film comedy. The work in this issue also demonstrates that scholarship on American humor is not only being created by scholars working in the United States, as we have two pieces from scholars out of Europe.First up is Sarah Shermyen’s “Reading Gertrude Stein for Pleasure: Finding the ‘Mere Humor’ in ‘High Modernism.’” Shermyen offers an analysis of Stein’s seemingly impenetrable poem “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso.” However, rather than offering a traditional literary analysis, Shermyen focuses on the poem’s playfulness and teases out the ways in which its use of sound and repetition may generate laughter for readers. Next, Mark Hama explores the sophisticated uses of ethnic humor in the work of playwright Luís Valdez. Hama’s essay “Challenging Stereotypes: Prosocial Racial Humor in Luís Valdez’s Actos” provides a useful historical context for Valdez’s work and ultimately focuses on the ways in which his one-act play Los Vendidos uses humor to challenge predominant stereotypes of Mexican Americans.After that, Michael Louis Moser explores the multiple strategies of late-night television hosts during the pandemic in his piece “Intimacy, In-Jokes, and the Feeling of Spontaneity on Late-Night Talk Shows: How Hosts and Audiences Laughed Together in Pandemic Times.” This excellent essay adds to the growing body of work about how COVID may have changed the ways in which we consume, produce, and understand humor. Finally, Wieland Schwanebeck explores the intersections of community building and awkward humor in his essay “When the Community of Laughter Needed the Bathroom: Bridesmaids and the Limits of Cringe Comedy.” This piece offers a compelling analysis of the raunch-com film Bridesmaids and of the social impact of cringe comedy in general. The issue is rounded out by a full slate of book reviews and our usual “On Second Thought” feature. Lastly, please keep your eye out for our forthcoming special issue on feminist humor, due out one year from now.","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135149916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Lyric as Comedy: The Poetics of Abjection in Postwar America","authors":"Carrie Conners","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0287","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80743758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Film, Environment, Comedy: Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen","authors":"Punyashree Panda","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0304","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75016631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"To Be Real: Truth and Racial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy","authors":"K. Wood","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79803466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy","authors":"Kimberley J. Hannah-Prater","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0292","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84594254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On Second Thought","authors":"","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0205","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial| September 05 2023 On Second Thought Studies in American Humor (2023) 9 (2): 205–210. https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0205 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation On Second Thought. Studies in American Humor 5 September 2023; 9 (2): 205–210. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0205 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressStudies in American Humor Search Advanced Search Editors:While reading Benjamin Schwartz’s excellent essay “‘Making Such Spaces … Where None Previously Existed’: Interstitial Wit in Fran Ross’s Oreo,” I was struck most by how Schwartz deftly ties the novel’s use of humor to the notion of community building.1 Schwartz argues that the “power that humor affords Oreo is inextricably related, as the acronym ‘WIT’ suggests, to the fact that as a Black girl she occupies an in-between space, what Hortense Spillers refers to as the ‘interstices’ of American culture” (16). It’s in those “interstices,” Schwartz goes on to suggest, that humor can open up space to communicate shared experiences and create a sense of affinity among minoritized groups.This argument is especially compelling given that such groups are often framed as being mutually exclusive and that humor is often used to target and emphasize difference. Even for members of a minoritized identity, telling jokes about... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135150070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In on the Joke: The Original Queens of Stand-Up Comedy","authors":"Samantha Silver","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0310","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79572260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them by Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx (review)","authors":"Evan Cooper","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0178","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"46 1","pages":"178 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89141103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980 ed. by Dan Nadel (review)","authors":"Teresa Prados-Torreira","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0188","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"9 1","pages":"188 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89766387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Making Such Spaces . . . Where None Previously Existed”: Interstitial Wit in Fran Ross’s Oreo","authors":"Benjamin Schwartz","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0013","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article explores how Fran Ross’s 1974 novel Oreo uses humor to challenge static notions of Black, Jewish, and American identity. Through her mock heroic quest, Oreo’s eponymous protagonist develops WIT (“Way of the Interstitial Thrust”), a system of self-defense that draws on her multifaceted identity as a Jewish, African American woman and that she uses to successfully navigate spaces that threaten her with physical violence and symbolic erasure. In its hilarious exploration of the complexity and commodification of identity in the late twentieth century United States, Oreo provides a still-relevant example of how humor can create new spaces for minoritized subjects who exist in the “interstices” of the landscape of American cultural production.","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"307 1","pages":"13 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79884445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}