{"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":"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":"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}
{"title":"Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Carrie Conners (review)","authors":"Kylen Smith","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0192","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"370 1","pages":"192 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77852823","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":"Playing with the (Gendered) Rules of Stand-Up: Alternative Aesthetics of Power in Kristen Schaal: Live at The Fillmore","authors":"Luise Charlotte Noé","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.9.1.0051","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Why are female stand-up performers more likely to be viewed favorably if they are designated “alternative” rather than “mainstream”? Herein this article explores answers to this question while adding to the scholarship on alternative comedy in the United States, which emerged in the late 1990s and early aughts. Focusing on stand-up comedian Kristen Schaal, this article explains the connection between aesthetics and gender by arguing that the alternative style aims to subvert previous notions of performative power. By decentering masculine codings of power, alternative comedy evades the gender expectations that alienated mainstream audiences from female performers in the past, allowing female performers further avenues to success.","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"94 1","pages":"51 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83555040","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}