New Perspectives on Women and Comedy (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Barreca, Regina

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1992, the twenty-one original essays in this volume explore the way women have used humor to break down cultural stereotypes between the genders, using examples from literature and the performing arts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000579284
• Artikelnr.: 63902892

Autorenporträt

Regina Barreca, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English Literature at The University of Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. 1. Making Trouble: An Introduction
Regina Barreca 2. What to Do with Helen Keller Jokes: A Feminist Act Mary
Klages 3. Just Kidding: Gender and Conversational Humor Mary Crawford 4.
Roseanne Barr: Canned Laughter - Containing the Subject Siân Mile 5. Belly
Laughs and Naked Rage: Resisting Humor in Karen Finley's Performance Art
Maria Pramaggiore 6. Sylvia Talks Back Kayann Short 7. Why Women
Cartoonists are Rare, and Why That's Important Betty Swords 8. Return the
Favor Laura Kightlinger 9. The Parallel Lives of Kathy and Mo Brenda Gross
10. The Politics of Humor: An Interview with Margaret Drabble Ian
Wojcik-Andrews 11. Wendy Cope's Struggle with Strugnell in Making Cocoa for
Kingsley Amis, Nicola Thompson 12. A Duel of Wits and the Lesbian Romance
Novel or Verbal Intercourse in Fictional Regency England Catrióna Rueda
Esquibel 13. Louise Erdrich as Nanapush Sharon Manybeads Bowers 14.
Confirming the Place of "The Other": Gender and Ethnic Identity in Maxine
Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Khani Begum 15. Feminist Humorist of the
1920s: The "Little Insurrections" of Florence Guy Seabury Thomas Grant 16.
Irony and Ambiguity in Grace King's "Monsieur Motte" Zita Z. Dresner 17.
Violence and Comedy in the Works of Flannery O'Connor Mark Walters 18.
Laughter as Feminine Power in The Color Purple and A Question of Silence,
Judy Elsley 19. The Goblin Ha-Ha: Hidden Smiles and Open Laughter in Jane
Eyre, Robin Jones 20. The Art of Courting Women's Laughter Bette Talvacchia
21. The Ancestral Laughter of the Streets: Humor in Muriel Spark's Earlier
Works Regina Barreca. Index.