Seen as too smart, too sassy, too sexy, and too strident, female
humorists have been resisted and overlooked. New York Women of Wit
in the Twentieth Century corrects this tendency, focusing on the
foremothers of women’s humor in modern America, who used satire,
irony, and wit as indirect forms of social protest. This book
focuses on the women who stood on the periphery of predominantly
male New York intellectual circles in the twentieth century.
Sabrina Fuchs Abrams argues that the advent of modernism, the
women’s suffrage movement, the emergence of the New Woman and the
New Negro Woman, and the growth of urban centers in the 1920s and
’30s gave rise to a new voice of women’s humor, one that was at
once defiant and conflicted in defining female identity and the
underlying assumptions about gender roles in American society. Her
study gives special attention to the contributions of the satirists
Edna St. Vincent Millay (pseudonym Nancy Boyd), Tess Slesinger,
Dorothy Parker, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Dawn Powell, and Mary
McCarthy. Grounded in theories of humor, feminist and critical race
theory, and urban studies, this book will find an audience among
scholars and students interested in women writers, feminist humor,
modern American literature, and African American studies.
General
Imprint: |
Pennsylvania State University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Humor in America |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
First published: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Sabrina Fuchs Abrams
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
244 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-271-09571-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-271-09571-7 |
Barcode: |
9780271095714 |
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