**Apologies for cross-posting**
The Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures (CRYTC) is pleased to announce that the
Special Issue on Laughter, the 2021 Summer Issue of
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (13.1) is now available.
The following sections are open access:
- Editorial,
“Studying Laughter” by Heather Snell
- Review essays by
Stephanie Brown,
Christina Fawcett,
Wanderley Anchieta, Kristine Dizon, and
Richard Gooding
- An essay on
The Pop-Up against Coronavirus Project, by Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
- An essay on the
diversiSmiles project, by George F. Simons
Articles include:
- “An Analysis of Humorous Devices in Picture Books: A Pictorial
Article” by Elys Dolan
- “L’humour dans Les nouveaux contes d’Amadou Koumba de Birago Diop et La belle histoire de Leuk-le-lièvre de Léopold S. Senghor et Abdoulaye Sadji” by Nene Diop
- “The Anxious Laughter of Silly Songs” by John Patrick Pazdziora and Eric Pazdziora
- “The Social and Historical Effects of Laughter in
Revolutionary Ireland: The Case of Our Boys” by Elena Ogliari
- “Le rire : formes et fonctions du comique dans la
fiction africaine pour la jeunesse” by Kodjo Attikpoé
- ““Laugh! I Thought I Should’ve Died”: British Music
Hall Humour and the Subversion of Childhood on The Muppet Show” by Liam Maloy
- “Des procédés humoristiques au cœur des albums”
by Isabelle Montésinos-Gelet, Rachel DeRoy-Ringuette, and Marie Dupin de Saint-André
- “Young Banyumasan Street Traders as Shapeshifters
of Modernity: Refreshment, Production, and the Pursuit of Pranks and Jokes in Jakarta” by Traci Marie Sudana
- “‘Which One of You Is the Twelve-Year-Old Boy?’:
Children’s Humour, Wittgensteinian Jokes, and the Sack Lunch Bunch” by Michael G. Dalebout
Housed in the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures (CRYTC) at the University of Winnipeg (Canada),
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures is a scholar-led, interdisciplinary, refereed academic journal, the mandate of which is to publish research on and to provide a forum for discussion about cultural productions for, by, and about young people.
More information on how to submit papers and how to subscribe can be found on our website:
http://www.jeunessejournal.ca.
Kind regards,
Lauren
Lauren Bosc
Managing Editor,
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures