American humor, red, white, and black

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fuck satire, its simple, easy and anyone can do it. fuck satire.


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>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: re: American humor, red, white, and black
>Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 09:04:25 -0700 (PDT)
>
>American Humor: A Study of the National Character
>Constance Rourke
>
>http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/rourke/cover.html
>
>On the Real Side, a history of African-American humor,
>Mel Watkins
>
>http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/african_american_literature_ret/34989
>
>Laughter has historically been a way of retaining some
>dignity in the face of oppression. Most humor, Freud
>maintained, is mental release from suffering. Laughter
>is a kind of therapy. Both African-American and Indian
>writers remark on the importance of humor in the
>survival of both peoples during their painful history
>of oppression. "Humor is the best and sharpest weapon
>we've always had against the ravages of conquest and
>assimilation," says Paula Gunn Allen, Indian critic
>and poet (qtd. in Lincoln 7). A black counterpart
>writes: "In the grim and harsh reality of Black life
>in America the black man has been able to laugh as he
>probes his bleeding wound--to laugh instead of
>succumb to utter despair and defeat" (Dance 125).
>
>In the 1960's, these native traditions of humor began
>to assert themselves during the period of the Civil
>Rights movement, when what we now call
>multiculturalism started to take legal shape. After
>being objects of ridicule, black and Indian figures
>began to turn the subversive elements in their humor
>publicly against the establishment. Dick Gregory was
>one of the first black comedians to direct this kind
>of humor against the status quo, to use humor as a
>weapon in the campaign for civil rights and racial
>justice. Here's a sample of Dick Gregory's ironic
>black humor, quite new in the 60's: "Isn't this the
>most fascinating country in the world? Where else
>would I have to ride in the back of the bus, have a
>choice of going to the worst schools, eating in the
>worst restaurants, living in the worst
>neighborhoods--and make $5000 a week just talking
>about it?" (Hughes 9).
>
>http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~jast/Number2/Espey.html
>
>
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