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ByCaroline Kyung Hong
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“Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.” -William Feather
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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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