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- English
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About this book
First Published in 1998. This lively volume explores comedy as a place where gender and sexuality, through performance, challenge sexist and heteronormative forces in Western culture. The contributors investigate the effects of gender, sexuality, sexual identity, race, class and nationality on humor and comedic performance. Each chapter, distinct in its voice and content, addresses how particular historical periods seem to affect who laughs at what, why, and with what consequences. This book not only spans a broad range of historical and literary periods, it also engages in a critical conversation with past and present thinkers to articulate the political, cultural and social effects of comedy.
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Index
A
About, Edmond, 52
Acrobats, 60, 123
Aestheticism
and sexual-political inclusiveness, 90
in Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories, 81–92
role in cultural validation, 83
Aesthetics, 200
Hegelian, 171
literary, 172–173
Allais, Alphonse, 52, 54
Allen, Robert, 62
Allen, Woody, 4, 200
Alonzo, Henry, 173
Altman, Robert, 95
Anarchic couple, 11
Anarchism, 7, 15, 17, 167, 171, 173
Anti-Negro jokes, 208
Anti-prostitution crusaders, 64
Apte, Mahadev, 44, 121
Aristophanic comedy, 5, 6, 28
Arnold, Roseanne, 43, 142, 258
Art and theory, postmodern, 151, 152
As You Like It, 10, 15, 22, 23, 32, 33
Asian American identity, 112, 122
Atkinson, Rowan, 261
Audience, 9, 14, 17, 36, 38, 65, 70, 84, 133, 205, 208, 264
and comedian, 16
and joker, 3, 4
and terminology, 255, 257
and the performer, 86
as voyeur, 16
Black, 208, 212
Black American, 211
British as compared to North American, 259
heterosexual, 131
hidden, 16
involvement, and women artists, 64
listener and reader, 37
“open,” 16
reaction to Sensible Footwear, 250, 255, 257
research, 211
vaudeville, 62...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction to the Series
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- I Earlier Literatures
- II Modern and Contemporary
- III New Forms
- IV Performing Canadians
- Index
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