摘要：
Diversion and subversion occur in the playful humor in which trans-migrant
farm workers engage to alleviate the gruffness and roughness of
farm labor and to re-assert the human potential for creativity,
with words, if not in action and behavior. This essay considers
nuances of the humor response in formal interviews as markers of
significant points of transition. Narrators use humor to reflect
on alterations in behavioral experience that directly affect the
personal identity they have come to accept and to believe is a reasonable
representation of who they are.
