Description: Encompassing view of humor in recent Native North American literature, with particular focus on Native self-image and identity.
Brief description: Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature/American Studies, Universität Konstanz (University of Constance).
Review Quotes: The investigation of Native humor . has, with very few exceptions, remained restricted to anthropological and ethnographic studies of ritual humor.. Gruber's pioneering research fills this gap.. More than a significant contribution to Native American Studies; it is at the same time both a thoroughly researched academic study of and a most inspiring encounter with one of the central aspects of Native literature.-- "ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK"