Sneaky Re-Views: Can Robert Townsend’s Taste for Stereotypes Contribute Positively to Identity Politics?

Performing Gender and Comedy: Theories, Texts and Contexts

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 199-218

  Margolis, Harriet ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

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