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Taking a Stand : Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians as Public Intellectuals /

"Stand-up comedians have a long history of walking a careful line between serious and playful engagement with social issues: Lenny Bruce questioned the symbolic valence of racial slurs, Dick Gregory took time away from the stage to speak alongside Martin Luther King Jr., and-more recently-Tig N...

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Other Authors: Kunze, Peter C. (Peter Christopher) (Editor), Champion, Jared N. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo

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