Performing marginality: Comedy, identity, and cultural critique

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 317-330

  Gilbert, Joanne R ^a  

^a ALMA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Barr; Diller; Feminism; Humor; Identity; Marginality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010811939     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10462939709366196     Document Type: Article

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