Humour in Times of Confrontation, 1901 to the Present

Shun-Liang Chao is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He has authored Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crashaw, Baudelaire, Magritte (awarded the Anna Balakian Prize of the ICLA) and co-edited Humour in the Arts: New Perspectives and Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts.Vivienne Westbrook is Professor of English and Cultural Studies. She holds honorary research positions in The School of Humanities and the Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, and in The School of Life Sciences at La Trobe University, Australia. She is a General Editor of Humour in Literature and Culture and Oceans, Seas and Shorelines: Cultural, Environmental and Natural Histories.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsIntroduction: “[W]hen the world is torn apart by so much conflict and division”Shun-Liang Chao and Vivienne WestbrookChapter One: Caricaturising the City: Humour and Racial Difference in New York City at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyMeaghan M. WalshChapter Two: Red in the Face: The Great Depression, Nathanael West, and Cynical HumourRichard AldersleyChapter Three: Juro Kubicêk’s Mein K(r)ampf: Derision, Dissent, and Denazification in Post-War BerlinCamilla SmithChapter Four: The Power and Limitations of Humour in State Socialist Hungary in the Aftermath of the 1956 RevolutionLili ZáchChapter Five: “A demonstration is also FUN”: Folk Humour and Play as Tactics to Disrupt the Rational State during the 1968 ProtestsLaura BowieChapter Six: Confronting Patriarchy: Humour and the British Women’s Liberation Movement, 1968-1992Sarah CrookChapter Seven: Riotous Laughter: LGBTQ+ Humour in the Age of StonewallSarah ChantChapter Eight: Survivalist Humour: Improvising at the Turn of the MillenniumGabe BeckhurstChapter Nine: Confronting China’s “Little Pinks”: Political Humour in Namewee’s Love Song “Fragile”Shun-Liang ChaoIndex