The 'Other' laughs back: humour and resistance in anti-racist comedy

This article outlines the ‘reverse discourses’ of black, African-American and Afro-Caribbean comedians in the UK and USA. These reverse discourses appear in comic acts that employ the sign-systems of embodied and cultural racism but develop, or seek to develop, a reverse semantic effect. I argue the...

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Main Author: Simon Weaver
Format: Default Article
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Other human society not elsewhere classified
Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified
Ambivalence
Comedy
Humour
Reverse discourse
Rhetoric
Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/6679
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