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Standup Comedy In Theory, Or, Abjection In America (New Americanists),New
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Standup Comedy In Theory, Or, Abjection In America Is The First Study Of Standup Comedy As A Form Of Art. John Limon Appreciates And Analyzes The Specific Practice Of Standup Itself, Moving Beyond Theories Of The Joke, Of The Comic, And Of Comedy In General To Read Standup Through The Lens Of Literary And Cultural Theory. Limon Argues That Standup Is An Artform Best Defined By Its Fascination With The Abject, Julia Kristevas Term For Those Aspects Of Oneself That Are Obnoxious To Ones Sense Of Identity But That Are Neverthelesslike Blood, Feces, Or Urineimpossible To Jettison Once And For All. All Of A Comedians Life, Limon Asserts, Is Abject In This Sense.Limon Begins With Standup Comics In The 1950S And 1960Slenny Bruce, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Elaine Maywhen The Norm Of The Profession Was The Jewish, Male, Heterosexual Comedian. He Then Moves Toward The Present With Analyses Of David Letterman, Richard Pryor, Ellen Degeneres, And Paula Poundstone. Limon Incorporates Feminist, Race, And Queer Theories To Argue That The Comedification Of Americastandup Comedys Escape From Its Narrow Originsinvolves The Repossession By Black, Female, Queer, And Protestant Comedians Of What Was Black, Female, Queer, Yet Suburbanizing In Jewish, Male, Heterosexual Comedy. Limons Formal Definition Of Standup As Abject Art Thus Hinges On His Claim That The Great American Comedians Of The 1950S And 1960S Located Their Comedy At The Place (Which Would Have Been Conceived In 1960 As A Location Between New York City Or Chicago And Their Suburbs) Where Body Is Thrown Off For The Mind And Materiality Is Thrown Off For Abstractionat The Place, That Is, Where American Abjection Has Always Found Its Home.
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