How can humour and irony in writing both create and destroy
boundaries? In the Belly of a Laughing God examines how eight
contemporary Native women poets in Canada and the United States -
Joy Harjo, Louise Halfe, Kimberly Blaeser, Marilyn Dumont, Diane
Glancy, Jeannette Armstrong, Wendy Rose, and Marie Annharte Baker -
employ humour and irony to address the intricacies of race, gender,
and nationality. While recognizing that humour and irony are often
employed as methods of resistance, this careful analysis also
acknowledges the ways that they can be used to assert or restore
order.
Using the framework of humour and irony, five themes emerge from
the words of these poets: religious transformations; generic
transformations; history, memory, and the nation; photography and
representational visibility; and land and the significance of
'home.' Through the double-voice discourse of irony and the textual
surprises of humour, these poets challenge hegemonic renderings of
themselves and their cultures, even as they enforce their own
cultural norms.
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