By Kenneth Lincoln
Drawing upon background, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and the humanities, this booklet demanding situations "wooden Indian" stereotypes to redefine unfavourable attitudes and humorless methods to local American peoples. relocating from tribal tradition to interethnic literature, Lincoln covers the normal Trickster of beginning myths, old ironies, Euroamericans "playing Indian," feminist Indian humor at domestic, modern painters and playwrights reinventing Coyote, renowned mixed-blood tune and crimson English, and 3 local American novelists, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, and N. Scott Momaday. Indi'n Humor files and translates the contexts of laughter between local american citizens, as they see and are noticeable by way of the remainder of the realm. The research involves concentration comically at the poets, visible artists, playwrights, and novelists who make up the cultural renaissance of the earlier twenty years.
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