Race comedy and the "misembodied" voice
| dc.contributor.author | Brayton, Sean | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-05-13T21:37:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-05-13T21:37:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description | Permission granted by the publisher | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This essay unpacks the ways in which our “knowledge” of race and ethnicity is tied to ocularcentrism. It explores the political possibilities of ethnolinguistic imitation or “style-shifting” as part of an antiracist pedagogy embedded within popular culture. If identity is performed across different contexts, we may find an interesting dialogue of race and ethnicity within stand-up comedy, a realm of popular culture sometimes dismissed as “light entertainment.” The comedy of Russell Peters and Margaret Cho offer a site of imitation and ambivalence enabled by delinquent ethnic voices that play with the boundaries between self and Other. | en_US |
| dc.description.peer-review | Yes | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Brayton, S. (2009) Race Comedy and the "Misembodied" Voice. Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 22, 97-116. http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/topia/article/view/31866 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10133/3419 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_CA | en_US |
| dc.publisher | York University | en_US |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Kinesiology | en_US |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Arts and Science | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Lethbridge | en_US |
| dc.subject | Race | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ethnicity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Stand-up comedy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sociolinguistics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Style-shifting | en_US |
| dc.subject | Peters, Russell | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cho, Margaret | en_US |
| dc.title | Race comedy and the "misembodied" voice | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |