Politics of Humour

Martina Kessel is a professor in the Faculty of History, Philosophy, and Theology at the University of Bielefeld.Patrick Merziger is a research associate in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the Free University of Berlin.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Landscapes of Humour. The History and Politics of the Comical in the Twentieth Century by Martina Kesse (University of Bielefeld, Germany) When Are Jewish Jokes No Longer Funny? Ethnic Humour in Imperial and Republican Berlin by Peter Jelavich (Johns Hopkins University)Creole Cartoons by Mark Winokur (University of Colorado)Talking War, Debating Unity. Order, Conflict, and Exclusion in 'German Humour' in World War One by Martina KesselProducing a Cheerful Public. Light Radio Entertainment During National Socialism by Monika Pater (Hamburg University)Humour in the Volksgemeinschaft. The Disappearance of Destructive Satire in National Socialist Germany by Patrick Merziger (University of Colorado)Laughing to Keep from Dying: Jewish Self-Hatred and The Larry Sanders Show by Vincent Brook (UCLA, USC, Cal-State LA, and Pierce College)Ethnic Humour and Ethnic Politics in the Netherlands at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: The Rules and Attraction of Clandestine Humour by Giselinde Kuipers (University of Amsterdam)The Tongues of Mocking Wenches: Humour and Gender in Late Twentieth-Century British Fiction by Eileen Gillooly (Columbia University)List of Contributors