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Serious “Silly Talk”: The Politics of Dialect in Walt Kelly's Comic Strip Pogo

2010; Wiley; Volume: 43; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1540-5931.2010.00788.x

1540-5931

Kerry D. Soper,

American and British Literature Analysis

The Journal of Popular CultureVolume 43, Issue 5 p. 1081-1110 Serious “Silly Talk”: The Politics of Dialect in Walt Kelly's Comic Strip Pogo KERRY SOPER, KERRY SOPER Brigham Young UniversitySearch for more papers by this author KERRY SOPER, KERRY SOPER Brigham Young UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 September 2010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2010.00788.xCitations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Works Cited Andrae, Thomas, and Geoffrey Blum. Ward Kimball Remembers Walt Kelly. Phi Beta Pogo. Eds. Selby Kelly and Bill Crouch. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. 132–47. Bakhtin, M. M. The Dialogic Imagination. Austin: Texas UP, 1981. Becker, Stephen. Comic Art in America. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Beiman, Nancy. Walt & Selby Kelly. Cartoonist Profiles 60 (1983): 26–31. Berry, Boyd M. A Perusal of Pogo Possum's Politics. The Best of Pogo. Eds. Selby Kelly and Bill Crouch. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. 195–97. Bickley Jr, R. Bruce. Critical Essays on Joel Chandler Harris. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1981. Blair, Walter, and Hamlin Hill. America's Humor. New York: Oxford UP, 1978. Bluestein, Gene. Poplore: Folk and Pop in American Culture. Amherst: Massachusetts UP, 1994. Boatner, Barbara. Pogo Returns to Harvard. The Best of Pogo. Eds. Selby Kelly and Bill Crouch. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. 89–90. Chute, David. “The Return of Pogo, and Not a Moment Too Soon.”Los Angeles Times 25 Aug. 1991: 1(BR). Crouch, Bill Jr What Do You Know About the New York Star? The Best of Pogo. Eds. Selby Kelly and Bill Crouch. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. 10. Crouch, Bill Jr. Walt Kelly's Editorial Cartoons and World Events of 1948. The Best of Pogo. Eds. Selby Kelly and Bill Crouch. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. 38–40. Crouch, Bill Jr. Two Mavericks at the Disney Studio. Phi Beta Pogo. Eds. Selby Kelly and Bill Crouch. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. 131. Crouch, Bill Jr. Possum Attack. Phi Beta Pogo. Eds. Selby Kelly and Bill Crouch. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. 118–19. Davies, Christie. Ethnic Humor Around the World: A Comparative Analysis. Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1990. Denney, Reuel. The Revolt Against Naturalism. The Funnies. Eds. David Manning White and Robert H. Abel. London: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1963. 59–72. Dillard, J. L. Black English: Its History and Usage in the United States. New York: Random House, 1972. Dubois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. Fishkin, Shelley Fisher. Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African American Voices. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Horn, John. A Memory of Walt Kelly. The Best of Pogo. Eds. Selby Kelly and Bill Crouch. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. 41–47. Johnson, E. Patrick. Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. Jones, Gavin. Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1999. Kelly, Walt. Autobiography, Circa 1954. The Best of Pogo. Eds. Selby Kelly and Bill Crouch. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. 9. Kelly, Walt. The Land of the Elephant Squash. Pogo Even Better. Eds. Selby Kelly and Bill Crouch. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. 49–50. Kelly, Walt. London Calling: Kelly Interviewed by the Sunday Times. Pluperfect Pogo. Ed. Bill Crouch. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. 94. Levine, Lawrence. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought From Slavery to Freedom. New York: Oxford UP, 1977. Marschall, Richard. America's Great Comic-Strip Artists. New York: Abbeville Press, 1989. Pells, Richard H. The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age. New York: Harper and Row, 1985. Sewell, David. Mark Twain's Languages. Berkeley: U of California P, 1987. Thompson, Steve. Pogo's Adolescence. Walt Kelly's Pogo and Albert: At the Mercy of the Elephants. Forestville, California: Eclipse Books, 1990. Citing Literature Volume43, Issue5October 2010Pages 1081-1110 ReferencesRelatedInformation