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Split Infinities: The Comedy Of Performative Identity In Maxine Hong Kingston's *Tripmaster Monkey*, Jonna Mackin
Split Infinities: The Comedy Of Performative Identity In Maxine Hong Kingston's *Tripmaster Monkey*, Jonna Mackin
Dr. Jonna C Mackin
The article discusses a quarrel between Frank Chin and Maxine Hong Kingston regarding Chinese American Identity and goes on to analyze Kingston's novel *Tripmaster Monkey, His Fake Book* as a case where an analysis of the comedy leads to questions about her professed multiculturalism. Kingston's jokes reveal hidden aggression in the text and a tendency to obscure or erase African American cultural icons.
Raising Life To A Kind Of Art, Jonna Mackin
Raising Life To A Kind Of Art, Jonna Mackin
Dr. Jonna C Mackin
Though T.S. Eliot claimed to prize the working class ethos of Music Hall Comedy, he and his favorite artiste Marie Lloyt were key players in an essentially middle-class project of making sexual representation more explicit and more widely available but also more respectable as "art."