Comedy and the Politics of Representation Mocking the Weak /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Davies, Helen (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ilott, Sarah (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
• Subjects: Popular Culture.; People with disabilities.; Identity politics.; Comedy.; Popular Culture .; Disability Studies.; Politics and Gender.; Comedy Studies.

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...