Dal PC al CP : political correctness, genere, disabilità e arabofobia nella stand up comedy di Maysoon Zayid
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2019
Citazione:
Dal PC al CP : political correctness, genere, disabilità e arabofobia nella stand up comedy di Maysoon Zayid / C. Schiavini. - In: ACOMA. - ISSN 2421-423X. - 26:17(2019), pp. 69-85.
Abstract:
The essay investigates the interrelationships between Political Correcteness, stand-up comedy, and minority groups, by concentrating on
the performances of an Arab-American disabled comedian, the “Palestinian Muslim virgin with cerebral palsy” Maysoon Zayid. Focusing on PC as
a set of linguistic practices whose effect is the sanitarization of public discourse (especially when minorities are concerned), and stand-up comedy
as a set of speech acts aiming at both the affirmation and/or the transgression of identity boundaries, the essay investigates the relationship between PC and comedy, and the way they interact within the three “spaces of minority” Zayid embodies: ethnicity (Arab-Americaness in the wake of 9/11), gender (womanhood and its relation to both Arab and American cultures), and disability, under-represented in American culture and the media.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
C. Schiavini
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