[Englecturers] FYI: Working-Class Humor (4/07; collection & journal issue)

[Steven Axelrod]

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Papers are sought for a book/special issue of a journal on the topic of
"working-class humor" in any discipline (literary studies, cinema, art,
folklore, anthropology, history, etc.) and using any theoretical approach.
The focus of the collection is the interplay of the category of humor
(roughly defined as anything that can be perceived as funny, amusing, etc.)
with the working-class. Of particular interest are essays that pursue the
topic of working-class humor in relation to genre, ethnicity, race,
geography, and history. Both papers that deal with the representation of the
working class in humorous discourse and/or on the use of humor by the
working class are welcome. Expressions of interest are due anytime; actual
papers will be due in April 2007. 

Contact:
Salvatore Attardo
Editor-in-Chief
HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research
English Department
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555

humor at cc.ysu.edu or
sattardo at neo.rr.com

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