[lit-ideas] Ethnic Humour (Was: History of Humour)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:39:44 EDT
In a message dated 9/8/2004 11:32:16 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Those of you who have followed my musings will know that I once wondered if
a course could be taught on the history of humo[u]r. I'll let you know whe=
n
I've managed it, but I thought that some of you might like to see the
reading list.
Thanks. I wonder how specific one can go as to give a taxonomy of 'ethnic'
types of humor. You have "American humor", and "Southern humor" (i.e. American
Southern humor).
You have "French humor" and "Canadian humor"; "British humor" and "English
humor" and "Scots humour", "Scottish humour" and "Celtic humour", and "Highland
humour," vs. "Lowland humour" -- and "Hebridean humour".
But then you have, I suppose, "Yorkshire humour" vs. "Cockney humour". I
wonder if a list can be given of books or articles that go into the specifics
of
these kinds of 'ethnic' humour.
"Japanese humour" as distinguished from general "Asian" humour, for example
-- and so on.
(It should be understood that "Yorkshire humour" is humour that Yorkshire
people find amusing (if that's not a tautology) -- and not humour 'involving'
Yorkshire people).
Cheers,
JL
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