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<b>Honorable Mention Recipient for the Charles Hatfield Book Prize</b><br><br>Taking up the role of laughter in society, <i>How the Other Half Laughs:</i> <i>The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895–1920</i> examines an era in which the US population was becoming increasingly multiethnic and multiracial. Comic artists and writers, hoping to create works that would appeal to a diverse audience, had to formulate a method for making the “other half” laugh. In magazine fiction, vaudeville, and the comic strip, the oppressive conditions of the poor and the marginalized were portrayed unflinchingly, yet with a distinctly comic sensibility that grew out of caricature and ethnic humor.<br><br>Author Jean Lee Cole analyzes Progressive Era popular culture, providing a critical angle to approach visual and literary humor about ethnicity—how avenues of comedy serve as expressions of solidarity, commiseration, and empowerment. Cole’s argument centers on the comic sensibility, which she defines as a performative act that fosters feelings of solidarity and community among the marginalized.<br><br> Cole stresses the connections between the worlds of art, journalism, and literature and the p

Author

Jean Lee Cole

Publisher

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781496826534

Subjects

Comics, Literary Criticism, Science