Transgressive Humor Of American Women Writers (palgrave Studies In Comedy)
by Sabrina Fuchs Abrams /
2017 / English / PDF
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This collection is the first to focus on the transgressive
and transformative power of American female humorists. It
explores the work of authors and comediennes such as Carolyn
Wells, Lucille Clifton, Mary McCarthy, Lynne Tillman, Constance
Rourke, Roz Chast, Amy Schumer and Samantha Bee, and the ways in
which their humor challenges gendered norms and assumptions
through the use of irony, satire, parody, and wit. The
chapters draw from the experiences of women from a variety of
racial, class, and gender identities and encompass a variety of
genres and comedic forms including poetry, fiction, prose,
autobiography, graphic memoir, comedic performance, and new
media.
This collection is the first to focus on the transgressive
and transformative power of American female humorists. It
explores the work of authors and comediennes such as Carolyn
Wells, Lucille Clifton, Mary McCarthy, Lynne Tillman, Constance
Rourke, Roz Chast, Amy Schumer and Samantha Bee, and the ways in
which their humor challenges gendered norms and assumptions
through the use of irony, satire, parody, and wit. The
chapters draw from the experiences of women from a variety of
racial, class, and gender identities and encompass a variety of
genres and comedic forms including poetry, fiction, prose,
autobiography, graphic memoir, comedic performance, and new
media.Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers
Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers will
appeal to a general educated readership as well as to those
interested in women’s and gender studies, humor studies, urban
studies, American literature and cultural studies, and media
studies.
will
appeal to a general educated readership as well as to those
interested in women’s and gender studies, humor studies, urban
studies, American literature and cultural studies, and media
studies.