A laughable empire : the US imagines the Pacific world, 1840-1890

A laughable empire : the US imagines the Pacific world, 1840-1890 / Todd Nathan Thompson.

Author/creator	Thompson, Todd Nathan author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]
Description	xii, 232 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	American wit and humor--19th century --History and criticism. Satire, American--19th century --History and criticism. Pacific Islanders--Humor --History --19th century. Pacific Islanders in literature. Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature. Imperialism in literature. Islands of the Pacific--Humor --History --19th century. Islands of the Pacific--In literature.

Series	Humor in America Humor in America. ^A1458067
Contents	The backwoodsman abroad : the Pacific imperialism of nineteenth-century American humor -- Comic currents : Polynesians in periodicals -- "Cheering for ye, cannibal" : the politics of boiled missionaries -- Collecting the Pacific : a cabinet of comic curios -- "Didn't our people laugh?" : humor as resistance.
Abstract	"Explores humor and satire as a comic contact zone between the United States and the Pacific world from 1840 to 1890. Considers how nineteenth-century Americans and Pacific Islanders used humor to employ stereotypes or to question them"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2022061475
ISBN	9780271095042
ISBN	0271095040 hardcover

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