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In contrast to the popular cliché of the 'stoic Indian,' humor has always been important in Native North American cultures. Recent Native literature testifies to the centrality of this tradition. Yet literary criticism has so far largely neglected these humorous aspects, instead frequently choosing to concentrate on representations of trauma and cultural disruption, at the risk of reducing Native characters and Native cultures to the position of the tragic victim. This first comprehensive study explores the use of humor in today's Native writing, focusing on a wide variety of texts spanning all genres. It combines concepts from cultural studies and humor studies with approaches by Native thinkers and critics, analyzing the possible effects of humorous forms of representation on the self-image and identity formation of Native individuals and Native cultures. Humor emerges as an indispensable tool for engaging with existing stereotypes: Native writers subvert degrading clichés of "the Indian" from within, reimagining Nativeness in a celebration of laughing survivors, 'decolonizing' the minds of both Native and non-native readers, and contributing to a renewal of Native cultural identity. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Native Studies both literary and cultural. Due to its encompassing approach, it will also provide a point of entry for the wider readership interested in contemporary Native writing. Eva Gruber is assistant professor in the American Studies section of the Department of Literature at the University of Constance, Germany.

American literature --- Canadian literature --- Humor in literature --- Indians of North America --- #KOHU:CANADIANA --- 820 "20" --- 820 <71> --- 820 <73> --- 820 <73> Amerikaanse literatuur --- Amerikaanse literatuur --- Canadian literature (English) --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- 820 "20" Engelse literatuur--21e eeuw. Periode 2000-2099 --- Engelse literatuur--21e eeuw. Periode 2000-2099 --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Indian authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- Indian authors --- Humor in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Native North American literature. --- Native cultural identity. --- Native self-image. --- cultural stereotypes. --- decolonizing. --- humor. --- identity.

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Compares the cultural productions of Canada and the US - literature, but also film, opera, and even theme parks - providing a reassessment of Canadian Studies within a comparative framework.

Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Canadian and American. --- American and Candian. --- History and criticism --- Alice Munro. --- Alison Bechdel. --- American Literature. --- American Studies. --- Canadian Literature. --- Canadian Studies. --- Comparative Literature. --- Cultural Studies. --- Margaret Atwood. --- National History. --- National Identity. --- Reingard Nischik. --- Transnationalism. --- Yann Martel.

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The years following the attacks of September 11, 2001 have seen the publication of a wide range of scientific analyses of terrorism. Literary studies seem to lag curiously behind this general shift of academic interest. The present volume sets out to fill this gap. It does so in the conviction that the study of literature has much to offer to the transdisciplinary investigation of terror, not only with respect to the present post-9/11 situation but also with respect to earlier historical contexts. Literary texts are media of cultural self-reflection, and as such they have always played a crucial role in the discursive response to terror, both contributing to and resisting dominant conceptions of the causes, motivations, dynamics, and aftermath of terrorist violence. By bringing together experts from various fields and by combining case studies of works from diverse periods and national literatures, the volume Literature and Terrorism chooses a diachronic and comparative perspective. It is interested in the specific cultural work performed by narrative and dramatic literature in the face of terrorism, focusing on literature's ambivalent relationship to other, competing modes of discourse.

Terrorism in literature. --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature --- Terrorisme --- 11 septembre 2001, Attentats du (États-Unis) --- Dans la littérature --- Terrorism in literature --- Dans la littérature. --- Politics and literature.