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    Bilingual Humor, Verbal Hygiene, and the Gendered Contradictions of Cultural Citizenship in Early Mexican American Comedy

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    Issue Date
    2003
    Author
    Haney, Peter C.
    Publisher
    American Anthropological Association
    Type
    Article
    Article Version
    Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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    Abstract
    This article examines the paradoxes of linguistic purism in a series of sound recordings of comic dialogues made by Mexican immigrant comedians in San Antonio, Texas, during the Depression. The dialogues present characters who mix English and Spanish as transgressors of gender roles and national identities, reserving their harshest criticism for women. However, bilingual wordplay in the dialogues suggests a dialectically opposed ideological move toward a celebration of linguistic and cultural hybridity.
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    This is the Author's Final Draft. The publisher's official version is available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlin.2003.13.2.163. The audio files are also available online at http://linguisticanthropology.org/journal/web-enhanced-articles/blingual-humor/ .
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/9943
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.2003.13.2.163
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    Haney, Peter. (2003) “Bilingual Humor, Verbal Hygiene, and the Gendered Contradictions of Cultural Citizenship in Early Mexican American Comedy.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 13(2), pp. 163-188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlin.2003.13.2.163

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