Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction. Landscapes of Humour: The History and Politics of the Comical in the Twentieth Century 1
6. 1. When Are Jewish Jokes No Longer Funny? Ethnic Humour in Imperial and Republican Berlin 22
7. 2. Creole Cartoons 52
8. 3. Talking War, Debating Unity: Order, Conflict, and Exclusion in ‘German Humour’ in the First World War 82
9. 4. Producing a Cheerful Public: Light Radio Entertainment during National Socialism 108
10. 5. Humour in the Volksgemeinschaft: The Disappearance of Destructive Satire in National Socialist Germany 131
11. 6. Laughing to Keep from Dying: Jewish Self-Hatred and The Larry Sanders Show 153
12. 7. Ethnic Humour and Ethnic Politics in the Netherlands: The Rules and Attraction of Clandestine Humour 175
13. 8. ‘The Tongues of Mocking Wenches’: Humour and Gender in Late Twentieth-Century British Fiction 202
14. Contributors 221