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Performing Marginality - Humour, Gender and Cultural Critique (Paperback)
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Performing Marginality - Humour, Gender and Cultural Critique (Paperback)
Series: 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 revel 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 R. Gilbert
explores these questions to better illuminate the social,
constructive, and cultural implications of power and gender in
popular entertainment. Gilbert's research recognizes the problems
that arise from assumptions made about the genres of "female" and
"feminist" humor and ultimately suggests that these are part of a
larger genre she calls "marginal humor." Performing Marginality
provides a historical overview of female stand-ups and offers a
taxonomy of comedic postures assumed by contemporary female comics,
providing a useful way to categorize this often overlooked genre of
performance. Performing Marginality also examines problems in
existing studies on the subject, the politics involved with
marginal humor, and the role of audience in comic performance. This
book develops the notion of "performing marginality" not only as
the way female comics perform their gender onstage, but as the
means by which all of us construct, contest, and negotiate our
gendered, racialized, and otherwise marked identities in everyday
life. As a former professional stand-up comic and current scholar
of communications and women's studies, Gilbert offers a unique
perspective on gender, humor, and power through the lens of
contemporary female comic performance.
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