A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to This Issue: Comedy and Life Narratives

Q1 Arts and Humanities

a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI:10.1080/08989575.2022.2136823

L. Mcneill, J. Zuern

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Abstract

Abstract This introduction to the “Comic Lives” special issue of a/b examines the dynamic intersection of life narrative and humor. Picking up on a common theme in the contributors’ essays, the authors focus in particular on how comedians draw material for their comic performances from personal experiences of trauma and employ the rhetorical strategies of comedy to enact stealth testimony. They turn to the work of comedians such as Bo Burnham, Oliver Double, Hannah Gadsby, Hassan Minhaj, Thomas Ryan Red Corn and Sternlin Harjo, and Joe Wong to illustrate their discussion, and engage scholarship in comedy studies, persona studies, and celebrity studies to reflect on the affordances that comedy offers life narrative, the benefits and the risks of humor for auto|biographical subjects, and the capacities and limitations of the comic for resistance and counternarrative.

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一件有趣的事情发生在这个问题上:喜剧和生活叙事

摘要:本文介绍了a/b杂志的“喜剧生活”特刊，探讨了生活叙事与幽默的动态交集。在撰稿人的文章中，作者们选择了一个共同的主题，他们特别关注喜剧演员如何从个人的创伤经历中为他们的喜剧表演汲取素材，并运用喜剧的修辞策略来制定秘密的证词。他们求助于博·伯纳姆、奥利弗·杜布尔、汉娜·加兹比、哈桑·明哈吉、托马斯·瑞恩·瑞德·科恩、斯特恩林·哈乔和乔·王等喜剧演员的作品来阐述他们的讨论，并利用喜剧研究、人物研究和名人研究方面的学术知识来反思喜剧为生活叙事提供的启发，幽默对自传体主题的好处和风险，以及喜剧在抵抗和反叙事方面的能力和局限性。

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a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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期刊介绍： a /b: Auto/Biography Studies enjoys an international reputation for publishing the highest level of peer-reviewed scholarship in the fields of autobiography, biography, life narrative, and identity studies. a/b draws from a diverse community of global scholars to publish essays that further the scholarly discourse on historic and contemporary auto/biographical narratives. For over thirty years, the journal has pushed ongoing conversations in the field in new directions and charted an innovative path into interdisciplinary and multimodal narrative analysis. The journal accepts submissions of scholarly essays, review essays, and book reviews of critical and theoretical texts as well as proposals for special issues and essay clusters. Submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to independent, anonymous peer review.