Arthur Asa Berger

Li'l Abner

A Study in American Satire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Southwest literary humor and Yiddish humor collided in the ever-popular comic strip ¿Li¿l Abner,¿ From 1936 to 1977, when it ceased publication, this comic strip entertained, annoyed, riled, and amused legions of readers. Li¿l Abner, Daisy Mae, Mammy and Pappy Yokum, Moonbeam McSwine, Marryin¿ Sam, and Sadie Hawkins became pillars in American popular culture, and Dogpatch became a symbol, an emblem, and a community in mainstream U.S.A. The denizens of Dogpatch were destined for their place outside the frames of comic strips. They were popular subjects on stage and screen and eventually made their way into scholarly studies. Li¿l Abner: A Study in American Satire, the first such assessment, is made available again in this edition which includes a new afterword by the author. Originally published in 1969, it was the first full-length book devoted to a single American comic strip. It has remained a model of how the comics, sometimes snubbed as ¿culture for the common man,¿ can

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9780878057139
• ISBN-10: 0878057137
• Artikelnr.: 21811327

Autorenporträt

Arthur Asa Berger is Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University, where he taught for 38 years. He is the author of numerous books and articles on tourism, media, popular culture and everyday life. Among his books on tourism are Vietnam Tourism, Thailand Tourism, The Golden Triangle, Deconstructing Travel and Bali Tourism. He has lectured in more than a dozen countries and his books have been translated into nine languages.