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Li L Abner: A Study in American Satire

Li L Abner: A Study in American Satire

Berger, Arthur Asa

Paperback

Series: Studies in Popular Culture (Paperback)

HumorGeneral Graphic Novels

ISBN10: 0878057137
ISBN13: 9780878057139
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Mississippi
Published: Aug 1 1994
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.01
Language: English
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

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