Performing Marginality: Humor, Gender, and Cultural Critique
(Part of the Humor in Life and Letters Series)
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A rhetorical analysis of female stand-up comics that explores the relationships among humor, gender, and power in contemporary culture. How do contemporary American female comics perform onstage, and what does this performance reveal about power relations in our culture as well as the existence of a "female" and, more specifically, "feminist" genre of stand-up comedy? In this long overdue study of women and stand-up comedy, Joanne...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0814328032
ISBN13:9780814328033
Release Date:April 2004
Publisher:Wayne State University Press
Length:234 Pages
Weight:2.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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