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How the Other Half Laughs - The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 (Paperback)
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How the Other Half Laughs - The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 (Paperback)
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Taking up the role of laughter in society, How the Other Half
Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920
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. 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. Cole stresses the connections between the worlds of
art, journalism, and literature and the people who produced
them-including George Herriman, R. F. Outcault, Rudolph Dirks,
Jimmy Swinnerton, George Luks, and William Glackens-and traces the
form's emergence in the pages of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World
and William Randolph Hearst's Journal-American and how it
influenced popular fiction, illustration, and art. How the Other
Half Laughs restores the newspaper comic strip to its rightful
place as a transformative element of American culture at the turn
into the twentieth century.
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