Routledge
Performing Gender and Comedy: Theories, Texts and Contexts
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9789056995393
ISBN13:
9789056995393
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$190.79
Performing Gender and Comedy: Theories, Texts and Contexts
$190.79
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.
| Author: Shannon Hengen |
| Publisher: Routledge |
| Publication Date: 36025 |
| Number of Pages: 306 pages |
| Binding: Science |
| ISBN-10: 9056995391 |
| ISBN-13: 9789056995393 |
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