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Is diss a system? : a Milt Gross comic reader / edited by Ari Y. Kelman

Author
Gross, Milt, 1895-1953
Uniform Title
Works. Selections. 2010
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
ix, 293 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Additional Creators
Kelman, Ari Y., 1971-

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Contents
Introduction: Geeve a leesten! -- Nize baby (1926) (excerpts) -- Dunt esk! (1927) -- De night in de front from Chreesmas (1927) -- Hiawatta (1926) -- Famous fimmales (1928) -- Assorted Milt Gross images.
Summary
"Milt Gross (1895-1953), a Bronx-born cartoonist and animator, first found fame in the late 1920s, writing comic strips and newspaper columns in the unmistakable accent of Jewish immigrants, and is often credited with penning the nation's first graphic novel. By the end of the 1920s, Gross had become one of the most famous humorists in the United States, drawing praise from writers like H.L. Meneken and Constance Roarke, even as some of his Jewish colleagues found Gross' extreme renderings of Jewish accents to be more crass than comical." "Working during the decline of vaudeville and the rise of the newspaper cartoon strip, Gross captured American humor in transition. He translated the sounds of ethnic humor from the stage to the page and developed both a sound and a sensibility that grew out of an intimate knowledge ofimmigrant life. His parodies of beloved poetry sounded like reading primers set loose on the Lower East Side, while his accounts of Jewish tenement residents echoed with the mistakes and malapropisms born of the immigrant experience." "Introduced by an historical essay, Is Diss a System? presents some of the most outstanding and hilarious examples of Jewish dialect humor drawn from the five books Gross published between 1926 and 1928 - Nize Baby, De Night in de Front from Chreesmas, Hiawatta, Dunt Esk, and Famous Fimmales - providing a fresh opportunity to look, read, and laugh at this nearly forgotten forefather of American Jewish humor."--BOOK JACKET.
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9780814748237 (cl : alk. paper)
0814748236 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814748374
0814748376
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292).
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