Seriously Funny : : Disability and the Paradoxical Power of Humor / / Sara E. Green, Shawn Chandler Bingham.

Exploring a paradox, Shawn Bingham and Sara Green show how humor has been used both to challenge traditional views of disability and to reinforce negative stereotypes and social inequalities. Seriously Funny ranges from ancient Greek dramas to medieval court jesters to contemporary comedy, from stag...

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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Disability in Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t 1 The Social Significance of Disability Humor --   |t 2 Humor as Aesthetic, Analysis, and Activism --   |t 3 Disability and Humor in Historical Context --   |t 4 A Twenty-First-Century Cast of Comic Characters --   |t 5 Creating New Narratives --   |t 6 Disability Humor in a Politically Correct World --   |t 7 Using Disability Humor to Reimagine Society --   |t Appendix: Biographical Sketches of the Comedians Interviewed --   |t References --   |t Index --   |t About the Book 
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