In this Issue

Table of Contents

The Editor's Drawers

Lawrence Howe
pp. 1-4
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On Second Thought

Joanne Gilbert, Kathryn B. McKee
pp. 5-7
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American Humor and Matters of Empire: A Proposal and Invitation

Judith Yaross Lee
pp. 8-43
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Beyond Liveness: Experimentation in the Stand-Up Special

David Gillota
pp. 44-61
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"Like a Realtor in Peoria": Patton Oswalt, Twitter, and Heckling as Social Activism

Steven S. Kapica
pp. 62-90
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Laughter's Truths: Hurston, Ellison, and Open-Ended Dialogue

Juniper Ellis
pp. 91-109
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George S. Schuyler's "Shafts and Darts": The Messenger Years, 1923-1924

Lawrence Howe
pp. 110-123
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The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2018

Gretchen Martin
pp. 124-187
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Study in Black and White: Photography, Race, Humor by Tanya Sheehan (review)

Margaret D. Stetz
pp. 188-191
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God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor by Hershey and Linda Friedman (review)

Jennifer Caplan
pp. 191-194
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Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema: Sidesplitting sLaughter ed. by John A. Dowell and Cynthia J. Miller (review)

David Gillota
pp. 194-197
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Satire by John T. Gilmore, and: The Cambridge Introduction to Satire by Jonathan Greenberg (review)

James E. Caron
pp. 198-205
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Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism ed. by Magda Romanska and Alan Ackerman (review)

Tracy Wuster
pp. 205-207
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The Comedy Studies Reader ed. by Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz (review)

Steven S. Kapica
pp. 208-212
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Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak ed. by Helen Davies and Sarah Ilott (review)

Nikhil Jayadevan
pp. 212-216
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The Punk Turn in Comedy: Masks of Anarchy by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone (review)

Joshua Louis Moss
pp. 216-221
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Humour in the Arts: New Perspectives ed. by Vivienne Westbrook and Shun-liang Chao (review)

Emma Sullivan
pp. 221-224
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Film, Comedy, and Disability: Understanding Humour and Genre in Cinematic Constructions of Impairment and Disability by Alison Wilde (review)

Michael Epp
pp. 224-226
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Kierkegaard and the Legitimacy of the Comic by Will Williams (review)

Michael Dalebout
pp. 226-230
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Gender and Humor: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives ed. by Delia Chiaro and Raffaella Baccolini (review)

Jared N. Champion
pp. 230-233
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Comics and the World Wars: A Cultural Record by Jane Chapman, et al. (review)

Winifred Morgan
pp. 233-235
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The Language of Humor: An Introduction by Alleen Pace Nilsen and Don L. F. Nilsen (review)

Joseph Dorinson
pp. 236-239
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Funny Girls: Guffaws, Guts, and Gender in Classic American Comics by Michelle Ann Abate (review)

Zsófia Anna Tóth
pp. 239-242
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