Download |Funny Asians| PDF ByCaroline Kyung Hong Total Download 22 “Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.” -William Feather Synopsis 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 necessitat...