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• W292777384 abstract "1. Racist Joke Storming Katrina Black humor is literary concept that is undoubtedly very useful for rethinking fantastic in arts. However, before reexamining this concept seriously in context multi-ethnic literary history, let me start by identifying our own allegedly post-colonialist and globalist reality as full black humor. Let me illustrate point with an episode that came in wake apocalyptic disaster that stormed Deep South half decade ago. When Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans on August 29, 2005, Scott Stevens, thirty-nine-year-old Idaho weatherman and nine-year veteran at KPVI-TV News Channel 6, blamed Japanese Mafia for hurricane. Since Katrina, Stevens has been in newspapers across country where he has been quoted as saying Yakuza Mafia used Russian-made Cold War device--an electromagnetic generator--to cause Katrina, in bid to avenge atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima (Weatherman). This kind ridiculously funny idea reminds us those outrageous or preposterous books, what are called Tondemo-bon in Japanese, that are obsessed with conspiracy theories, pseudo-science, or historical revisionism. These are books detailing, for example, theory that Japanese and Jews have common ancestry, or theory that locates ethnic origins Native Americans in Japanese, or theory what one book calls A Final Warning from Mother Earth, guide to future based on knowledge ancients and other civilizations. One might compare this with Thomas Pynchon's latest novel Inherent Vice (2009) which is full outrageously paranoiac ideas such as notion that President Richard Nixon is a descendant Atlantis and Ho Chi Minh is of Lemuria (109). However, it is also true that these outrageous and preposterous books are all amusing from perspective that differs from what author intends (Tondemo-bon). And as works Jack Womack demonstrate, without this outrageous and preposterous imagination, science fiction and fantasy could not have thrived. Therefore, although hard scientists discount as ludicrous Scott Stevens's claims about Hurricane Katrina, his paranoid conspiracy theory still seems to make sense to some US citizens wrapped in Cold War pride and prejudice, even if they don't have taste for fantastic. Yes, conspiracy theory has long remained one and only tool for enjoying disasters, whether natural or artificial. To put it another way, it deconstructs boundary between natural disaster and artificial disaster. Thus, whoever loves and consumes these theories deserves Mark Svenvold's designation catastrophilia. At this point, we find Scott Stevens's racist responses to Hurricane Katrina second-rate parody black humor fiction. What makes this episode most blackly humorous is that given danger this techno-racist statement, statement that cost Stevens his job, he felt forced to explain his paranoid conspiracy theory in detail. Sometimes people cannot help but repeat saying or doing what is contrary to their own interests. This mental history testifies to effect what guru fantastic, Edgar Allan Poe, called the Imp Perverse. In her 1984 book The March Folly, noted historian Barbara Tuchman illustrated our inherent folly with examples Troy, Renaissance Popes provoking Protestantism, British losing their American colonies, and United States in Vietnam. What she proved in that book is that human history is not only series unreformed follies but also sequence black humor narratives. There is another reason why I began with black humor episode from wake Katrina. For, as Scott Stevens embedded racist discourse within his conspiracy theory about natural disaster, period artificial disasters that included Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War saw rise gelbe Gefahr or yellow peril discourse invented in 1895 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. …" @default.
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• W292777384 title "Race and Black Humor: From a Planetary Perspective" @default.
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