We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
"We Always Somebody Else": Inherited Roles and Innovative Strategies in Black Women's Stand-Up Comedy.
- Authors
Burrell, Jalylah
- Abstract
This article traces Marsha Warfield's stand-up comedy career as the practice rose to prominence and revolutionized comedic performance in the 1970s. Warfield's uses of humor offer complex representations of Black womanhood, and this essay links her work to companion projects by Black feminist activists and writers in the 1970s and 1980s. It also discusses the strategies Warfield developed to take the stage as herself, which resisted the inherited roles and routines that circumscribe Black women's humorous expressivity.
- Subjects
WARFIELD, Marsha; WOMEN comedians; AFRICAN American wit &; humor; AFRICAN American comedians; FEMINISM
- Publication
WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 2020, Vol 48, Issue 1/2, p182
- ISSN
0732-1562
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/wsq.2020.0004