Helen (Hrsg.) Davies

Comedy and the Politics of Representation

Mocking the Weak

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This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which humorous constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability raise serious issues about privilege, agency and oppression in popular culture. Should there be limits to free speech when humour is aimed at marginalised social groups? What are the limits of free speech when comedy pokes fun at those who hold social power? Can taboo joking be used towards politically progressive ends? Can stereotypes be mocked through their re-invocation? Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak breaks new theore… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Ilott, Sarah (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-319-90506-8
EAN: 9783319905068
Produktnummer: 28168136
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 262 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'498 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
Abbildungen: Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Helen Davies is Head of English and Creative Writing at Newman University, UK. She is the author of Gender and Ventriloquism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction: Passionate Puppets (Palgrave, 2012) and Neo-Victorian Freakery: The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show (Palgrave, 2015).Sarah Ilott is Lecturer in Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is the author of New Postcolonial British Genres: Shifting the Boundaries (Palgrave, 2015).