{"id":142678,"date":"2021-06-01T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=142678"},"modified":"2021-06-01T18:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T04:11:17","slug":"english-professor-examines-contemporary-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/01\/english-professor-examines-contemporary-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"English professor examines contemporary satire"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Popular prime-time comedians such as Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee and Jimmy Kimmel channel their satirical humor through current events and politics. It\u2019s a genre that intrigues University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Department of English<\/a> Professor Emeritus James Caron<\/strong>, so much so that he recently published a 284-page hardcover book about it, Satire as the Comic Public Sphere: Postmodern “Truthiness” and Civic Engagement<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“I have been doing research and writing on satire for some years now. The book is a culmination of that work to frame contemporary satire\u2019s postmodern aesthetic as a comic supplement to civic discourse,” Caron explained.<\/p>\n

Caron discusses how satire based on headline news reporting can trigger audiences to reflect and possibly take public sphere action. He credits pupils from one of his courses for providing inspiration.<\/p>\n

“Much of the intellectual energy for the book started with an honors class that I taught on satire at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa. So…mahalo to those students, who were all very, very good,” Caron said.<\/p>\n

The book is available for purchase online.<\/a> Caron has also authored Mark Twain, Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter<\/em> and coedited Refocusing Chaplin: A Screen Icon Through Critical Lenses<\/em> and Sut Lovingood\u2019s Nat\u2019ral Born Yarnspinner: Essays on George Washington Harris<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Caron published a book inspired by popular comedians such as Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel and their take on headline news. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[342,158,9],"class_list":["post-142678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-english","tag-publication","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t