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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Introduction | No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Practice and Theory
One | Carnivalesque and Grotesque: What Bakhtin’s Laughter Tells Us about Art and Culture
Part 1 | Encountering Humor: Racial, National, and Ethnic Stereotypes
Two | Bartolomeo Passarotti and “Comic” Images of Black Africans in Early Modern Italian Art
Three | “If You Tickle Us, Do We Not Laugh?”: Stereotypes of Jews in English Graphic Humor of the Georgian Era
Four | James Gillray, Charles James Fox, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Caricature and Displacement in the Debate over Reform
Five | The Other Within
Six | Material Culture, Slavery, and Governability in Colonial Cuba: The Humorous Lessons of the Cigarette Marquillas
Part 2 | Racial Humor and Theories of Modern Media
Seven | Fake Nostalgia for the Indian: The Argentinean Fiction of National Identity in the Comics of Patoruzú
Eight | Passing for History: Humor and Early Television Historiography
Nine | Comical Conflations: Racial Identity and the Science of Photography
Part 3 | Performative Comedy and Race
Ten | Laughter as Performance: Some Eighteenth-Century Examples
Eleven | Bittersweet Blackness: Humor and the Assertion of Ethnic Identity in Eleanor Antin’s Eleanora Antinova
Twelve | Traveling Humor Reimagined: The Comedic Unhinging of the Western Gaze in Caribbean Postcards
Thirteen | Springtime for Hitler Every Year: Dani Levy’s Hitler Comedy My Führer (2007)
Contributors
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