This article concerns a corpus of humorous narratives collected in a small mountain community in the Apennines. The focus is firstly on their production and content, which point towards seeing the corpus as an effective coping strategy for the villagers enabling them to adjust to changes and subverted expectations at a time of rapid social and cultural transformation (between the 1930s and 1960s). Secondly the article aims to explore the situations for the performance of the narratives, and in particular the key function their performance played in the periodic reintegration of villagers who had been away for long periods of emigration.
"Eliciting Laughter in a Changing Community: Humorous Narratives as Coping Tools and as Narrative Currency to Buy Reintegration” / L. Masoni. - In: FABULA. - ISSN 0014-6242. - STAMPA. - 52/1:(2011), pp. 17-31. [10.1515/fabl.2011.003]
"Eliciting Laughter in a Changing Community: Humorous Narratives as Coping Tools and as Narrative Currency to Buy Reintegration”
MASONI, LICIA
2011
Abstract
This article concerns a corpus of humorous narratives collected in a small mountain community in the Apennines. The focus is firstly on their production and content, which point towards seeing the corpus as an effective coping strategy for the villagers enabling them to adjust to changes and subverted expectations at a time of rapid social and cultural transformation (between the 1930s and 1960s). Secondly the article aims to explore the situations for the performance of the narratives, and in particular the key function their performance played in the periodic reintegration of villagers who had been away for long periods of emigration.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
