
Humor in America: The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840-1890 - Hardcover
Humor in America: The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840-1890 - Hardcover
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by Todd Nathan Thompson (Author)
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.
Author Biography
Todd Nathan Thompson is Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The National Joker: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire and Contributing Editor to Studies in American Humor.



















