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No Joke
Making Jewish Humor
Langbeschreibung
"Ruth Wisse's electrifying undressing of Jewish wit catapults us well past Freud's far more inhibited perceptions and into the naked precincts of tragic insight. Riffing through the laughter thrown up by the interpenetrations of language, history, and the political culture of variegated societies, Wisse uncovers subversion, paradox, fright, anger, grief, and the often defeated imagination of reversal. Tickle the funny bone long enough, she warns, and hilarity will expose dread. This stirringly original study of Jewish joking reveals the darker irony that underlies the comedic ironies of the Jewish mind at play."--Cynthia Ozick
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations ix Introduction: The Best Medicine 1 1 German Lebensraum 29 2 Yiddish Heartland 59 3 The Anglosphere 104 4 Under Hitler and Stalin 143 5 Hebrew Homeland 182 Conclusion: When Can I Stop Laughing? 221 Acknowledgments 245 Notes 249 Index 267
Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. She is the author of The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Language and Culture, which won a National Jewish Book Award. Her other books include Jews and Power (Schocken) and The Schlemiel as Modern Hero.
ISBN-13:
9780691165813
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.03.2015
Seiten:
296
Autor:
Ruth R Wisse
Gewicht:
327 g
Format:
205x128x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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