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Testimony, Jonna C. Mackin
Testimony, Jonna C. Mackin
Dr. Jonna C Mackin
This introduction to my book about comedy seeks to establish who I am as a writer of a book about comedy and about ethnicity. It then goes on to explain why comedy, identity and desire so often are linked by referencing theories of Diana Fuss and Homi Bhabha as well as Sigmund Freud on comedy.
Gramsci On Oedipus, Jonna Mackin
Gramsci On Oedipus, Jonna Mackin
Dr. Jonna C Mackin
This paper pretends to be an analysis of Sophocles' * Oedipus Rex* written by Antonio Gramsci. It was part of an imaginary dialogue created by me and a colleague about different ways to analyze the same text.
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."