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Standing Up, Speaking Out
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ABSTRACT
In recent decades, some of the most celebrated and culturally influential American oratorical performances have come not from political leaders or religious visionaries, but from stand-up comics. Even though comedy and satire have been addressed by rhetorical scholarship in recent decades, little attention has been paid to stand-up. This collection is an attempt to further cultivate the growing conversation about stand-up comedy from the perspective of the rhetorical tradition. It brings together literatures from rhetorical, cultural, and humor studies to provide a unique exploration of stand-up comedy that both argues on behalf of the form’s capacity for social change and attempts to draw attention to a series of otherwise unrecognized rhetors who have made significant contributions to public culture through comedy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Stand-Up and Identity
chapter 1|17 pages
“You Gotta Get Chinky with It!”: Margaret Cho’s Rhetorical Use of Humor to Communicate Cultural Identity
chapter 2|20 pages
If Laughs Could Kill: Eddie Izzard and the Queer Art of Comedy
chapter 3|17 pages
“No Damn Mammy, Moms!”: Rhetorical Re-invention in the Stand-up Comedy of Jackie “Moms” Mabley
chapter |12 pages
Response Laughing at Others: The Rhetoric of Marginalized Comic Identity
part |2 pages
Part II Stand-Up, Race, and Culture
chapter 5|19 pages
“Would You Want Your Sister to Marry One of Them?”: Whiteness, Stand-Up, and Lenny Bruce
chapter 6|14 pages
Teasing the Funny: Native American Stand-Up Comedy in the 21st Century
chapter |8 pages
Response From Insult to Reflection: Stand-Up Comedy and Cultural Pedagogy
part |2 pages
Part III Stand-Up and Politics
chapter 7|17 pages
The Comedic Prince: The Organic Intellectualism of Bill Hicks
chapter 8|16 pages
What’s the Deal with Liberals?: The Discursive Construction of Partisan Political Identities in Conservative Stand-Up Comedy
chapter 9|17 pages
Live from DC, It’s “Nerd Prom”: Political Humor at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner
part |2 pages
Part IV Standing Up, Breaking Rules