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"Funny Asians": Comedy and humor in Asian American literature, film, and popular culture.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Funny Asians": Comedy and humor in Asian American literature, film, and popular culture./
Author:	Hong, Caroline Kyung.
Description:	224 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-11, Section: A, page: 4286.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-11A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3379477
ISBN:	9781109483161

"Funny Asians": Comedy and humor in Asian American literature, film, and popular culture.
Hong, Caroline Kyung.

"Funny Asians": Comedy and humor in Asian American literature, film, and popular culture. - 224 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-11, Section: A, page: 4286.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009.

In the US popular imaginary, Asian Americans are not funny, except when made fun of for embodying corporeal, social, and cultural difference. A study of Asian American comedy and humor thus demonstrates participation in and interaction with an American canon and society that have historically worked, often through the same medium of comedy, to exclude and to mark Asian Americans as "alien." This dissertation asserts a uniquely Asian American comedic tradition and analyzes how it distinctly works to disrupt stereotypes or fixed notions of race, gender, sexuality, and class. For Asian Americans, comedy and humor---with all their attendant limits and possibilities---become strategies for interrogating US master histories and rearticulating subjectivities that have been shaped, constrained, and deformed by prevalent images of the perpetual foreigner and the model minority. Humor studies, American studies, ethnic studies, and Asian American studies all have largely neglected the topic---there currently exist no book-length studies on Asian American comedy and humor---and this project makes an intervention and argues for the recognition and inclusion of Asian American comedic texts in these various canons and fields.

ISBN: 9781109483161Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

"Funny Asians": Comedy and humor in Asian American literature, film, and popular culture.
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520 $a My argument is rooted in an explicitly gendered critique, interrogating how humor contributes to processes of gendered racialization for Asian American men and women, as well as how the foundational gender wars of Asian American literary and cultural studies might be reframed through comedy and humor. I ground my readings in work on comedy and humor by theorists such as Aristotle, Henri Bergson, Northrop Frye, Sigmund Freud, and Susan Purdie, and I analyze a range of Asian American cultural productions, including literary works such as Frank Chin's Donald Duk and Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey, popular fiction such as Caroline Hwang's In Full Bloom, films such as Saving Face and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, and the stand-up comedy of Margaret Cho. Though such a project necessitates an examination of the limits and problematics of humor, I assert that comedy encompasses a set of empowering and effective representational tactics, the transformative potential of which has significant pedagogical and material consequences.
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