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Tables of Contents for Rebellious Laughter
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
 
Introduction
1
14
PART ONE Twentieth-Century Accents
American Dream / American Laugh
15
10
The Urban Fulcrum
25
13
Outsiders/Insiders
38
13
PART TWO Time Frame
The Child and the Giant
51
20
Repression and Riposte
71
13
Guerrilla Satirists
84
18
``Is There Life Before Death?''
102
16
The Undeclared Joke Wars
118
27
Comedic Correctness
145
13
Tribal Reprisals
158
19
The Tattered Dream
177
23
Postlude: How Many Jokes Does It Take to Change a Zeitgeist?
200
7
Notes
207
22
Index
229