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Staking New Claims for Southwest Humor

Staking New Claims for Southwest Humor Staking New Claims for Southwest Humor by Jason Horn The Humor of the Old South. Edited by M. Thomas Inge and Edward J. Piacentino. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2001. 321 pp. $29.95. Revision, reassessment, and reclamation are the words that ring throughout this collection of nine new and eight previously published essays. Nearly all the volume's contributors point to new ways of understanding Southwest Humor, offer new insights into some misunderstood and undervalued frontier tales, and move beyond common critical opinion to wider ranges of interpretive possibility. At stake is the reclamation of Southwest Humor itself, as James Justus points out in the introduction, and this collection goes a long way toward recovering the literary and cultural matter necessary for understanding an often underappreciated genre. Kenneth Lynn was the most powerful of critics to lay his own claim to the literary territory of Southwest Humor with his publication of Mark Twain and Southwest Humor in 1959. Lynn, in fact, becomes a focal point for this volume as most of its contributors use his influential theory of the subversive effect of Southwest Humor as a springboard for their revisions. Expanding upon Walter Blair's view of the framed story, Lynn http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Staking New Claims for Southwest Humor

Horn, Jason Gary
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 35 (1) – Jun 3, 2002
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Staking New Claims for Southwest Humor by Jason Horn The Humor of the Old South. Edited by M. Thomas Inge and Edward J. Piacentino. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2001. 321 pp. $29.95. Revision, reassessment, and reclamation are the words that ring throughout this collection of nine new and eight previously published essays. Nearly all the volume's contributors point to new ways of understanding Southwest Humor, offer new insights into some misunderstood and undervalued frontier tales, and move beyond common critical opinion to wider ranges of interpretive possibility. At stake is the reclamation of Southwest Humor itself, as James Justus points out in the introduction, and this collection goes a long way toward recovering the literary and cultural matter necessary for understanding an often underappreciated genre. Kenneth Lynn was the most powerful of critics to lay his own claim to the literary territory of Southwest Humor with his publication of Mark Twain and Southwest Humor in 1959. Lynn, in fact, becomes a focal point for this volume as most of its contributors use his influential theory of the subversive effect of Southwest Humor as a springboard for their revisions. Expanding upon Walter Blair's view of the framed story, Lynn

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