Subversive Laughter: The Liberating Power of Comedy by Ron Jenkins

Subversive Laughter: The Liberating Power of Comedy

Ron Jenkins

220 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

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From Charlie Chaplin's parody of the great dictator to Richard Pryor's demysticism of racism, the funniest, noblest comedy has always been rooted in hostility to oppression. Now Ron Jenkins shows how comics around the world use their art to combat...

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